Topic: Catholic Church
Illinois probe reveals rampant sexual abuse in Catholic Church
May 24, 2023 · By Aljazeera News for www.aljazeera.com
Illinois probe reveals rampant sexual abuse in Catholic Church The attorney general of Illinois in the midwestern United States has released a 696-page report revealing widespread sexual abuse on the part of Roman Catholic clergy in the state — abuse it says went under-reported and, in some cases, tolerated. The report tallied 1,997 child survivors across seven decades, from […]
Read More...French Catholic Church to provide clergy with scannable IDs to battle sexual abuse
May 15, 2023 · By Aude MAZOUE for www.france24.com
French Catholic Church to provide clergy with scannable IDs to battle sexual abuse Rattled by repeated cases of sexual abuse over the years, the French Catholic Church will soon provide digital ID cards with scannable QR codes that will offer colour-coded background information – ranging from green to orange to red – on bishops, priests […]
Read More...The Catholic Church must bring abusers to justice
November 4, 2022 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
The Catholic Church must bring abusers to justice Fr. Shay Cullen 4 November 2022 It is vital that the Catholic Church, non-government organizations (NGOs), development agencies and government put children at the heart of national and religious concerns. The Church and clergy must remember and act constantly on the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth when […]
Read More...Pope declares ‘zero tolerance’ for Catholic Church abuse, saying he takes personal responsibility for ending it
September 6, 2022 · By Ivana Kottasová, CNN for edition.cnn.com
Pope declares ‘zero tolerance’ for Catholic Church abuse, saying he takes personal responsibility for ending it (CNN)Pope Francis says he has taken it on himself to rid the Catholic Church of sexual abuse, telling CNN’s partner channel CNN Portugal that he was “responsible that it doesn’t happen anymore.” In an exclusive, wide-ranging interview in Rome last month, […]
Read More...Filipino nuns deplore ‘terror financing’ charge
August 23, 2022 · By Joseph Peter Calleja for www.ucanews.com
Filipino nuns deplore ‘terror financing’ charge Catholic nuns from a missionary religious order in the Philippines have denounced a criminal charge by the state accusing them of financing terrorism and violating the country’s anti-terrorism law. The nuns from the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) issued a statement on Aug. 18 to denounce the criminal charge filed […]
Read More...Pope Francis on the Issue of Child Abuse and Zero Tolerance
April 8, 2015 · By Emer McCarthy for Vatican Radio
In a wide-ranging interview with Valentina Alazraki, from the Mexican broadcaster Televisa, Pope Francis has marked the second year of his pontificate by addressing the hot topics that have dominated public discourse since his election to the papacy. On the issue of child abuse and zero tolerance of the phenomenon. The Pope replies that the […]
Read More...Australian archbishop charged with concealing child abuse
April 7, 2015 · By AFP (reported on TheSunDaily)
The Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide was Tuesday charged with concealing child sex abuse and has taken leave from his high-level Australian position to fight the allegation. Philip Wilson was charged by New South Wales police in relation to an offence allegedly committed during the 1970s by known-paedophile priest Jim Fletcher, now dead, when both men […]
Read More...“Emulate Romero and remember the poor”
March 26, 2015 · By Cardinal Vincent Nichols
The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, urged Christians to emulate Oscar Romero by making the cries of the poor central to their prayers during an ecumenical homily at St Martin in the Fields in London on 21 March.: Excepts from Cardinal Nichols’ homily: On 23rd May, in the city of San Salvador, Oscar Romero […]
Read More...Pope: Church must rid itself of the scourge of child sexual abuse.
March 24, 2015 · By Vatican Radio
Pope Francis has sent a letter to the Presidents of Episcopal Conferences and Superiors of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life to ask for their complete co-operation with the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, in order to insure that everything possible is done to rid the Church of “the scourge” […]
Read More...Boys Town founder Fr. Flanagan warned Irish Church about abuse
June 17, 2014 ·
Father Edward Flanagan, founder of “Boys Town” made famous by the Spencer Tracy movie, was a lone voice in condemning Ireland’s industrial schools back in the 1940s – and he was viciously castigated by church and government for doing so.
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