Tag: Clergy sexual abuse
Missouri bishop calls for greater lay role in church, including abuse...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Laypeople need to help the U.S. bishops get out from under the clerical sex abuse scandal that is plaguing the...
Gobsmacked: Rome steps in, reform votes delayed for bishops
BALTIMORE — Seasoned bishop watchers know that just about every fall meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has a surprise. Sometimes it’s...
National Review Board chairman seeks fix to address charter ‘loophole’
WASHINGTON — The National Review Board chairman called for changes to the "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People" to "make it...
Open letter to U.S. bishops: Make prelates mandatory reporters of abuse
PHILADELPHIA — An open letter to the U.S. bishops asks that at their Nov. 12-14 fall general meeting in Baltimore, they make it mandatory...
Quebec bishops denounce abuses aired in broadcast on Oblates
MONTREAL — In a statement issued a few minutes after the broadcast of a story from Radio-Canada investigating sexual abuse allegedly committed by 10...
At synod, Sydney archbishop apologizes to young people for church failures
VATICAN CITY — Australian Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney used his speech at the Synod of Bishops to formally apologize to young people for...
Canadian bishops’ abuse policies do not include way to censure bishops
OTTAWA, Ontario — New sexual abuse policies that Canada’s bishops have vowed to implement will focus on prevention but will not include a mechanism...
Pa. bishops support creating fund to compensate survivors of sex abuse
PHILADELPHIA — The bishops of Pennsylvania’s eight Roman Catholic dioceses are supporting creation of an independent fund to compensate survivors of clergy sexual abuse.
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Cardinal Wuerl addresses church’s ‘pain, confusion and disillusionment’
WASHINGTON — Addressing the clergy abuse crisis in the church will require “wider lay engagement, more realized accountability and evident transparency,” said Washington Cardinal...
World’s bishops call for action on abuse; English bishop wants synod
MANCHESTER, England — A global synod on priests could help the church to end the “terrible” scandals of clerical child abuse, an English bishop...