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Pope Francis says sexual abuse by priests is an ‘absolute monstrosity’ in new book
August 22, 2017 · By Reuters for www.theguardian.com
In foreword to memoir by survivor of clerical abuse, pope promises action but critics say he has not done enough to hold perpetrators to account Pope Francis has branded sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests a “monstrosity” and pledged action against perpetrators and bishops who protected them. The pope made the comments in […]
Read More...Child abuse royal commission calls for dozens of law changes including new confession rules
August 14, 2017 ·
Clergy who fail to report information about child sexual abuse heard during confession would face criminal charges under a series of sweeping changes to the criminal justice system recommended in a new report. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has detailed 85 proposed changes to the law in a report released […]
Read More...Corruption is even in the Vatican -Pope Francis.
December 1, 2015 ·
Speaking in a church surrounded by corrugated cardboard homes in a moving visit to one of the notorious and long-lasting slum neighborhoods here, Pope Francis on Friday cried out against a global economic system that he said gives a wealthy minority license to let the majority suffer poverty. In a second meeting later in the […]
Read More...Columbans in Australia open their homes to the refugees
November 18, 2015 ·
Columbans in Australia open their homes to the refugees From the Director – There is room at the inn 13.11.2015 Columban Fr Gary Walker Recently wrote : We held a house meeting with the Columban priests who reside in our Essendon house.(Melbourne ,Australia) Most of the priests are retired but still show a keen interest […]
Read More...HOLY FATHER : Receives Raul Castro at Vatican (Vatican Radio via CNUA)
May 13, 2015 · By www.en.radiovaticana.va
Pope Francis received the President of Cuba, Raul Castro, on Sunday morning in private audience at the Vatican. A note from the Director of the Press Office of the Holy See, Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ, explains that Castro arrived at 9:30 AM, and stayed a little over an hour, during the course of which the […]
Read More...After Meeting Pope, Cuban President Says He May Return to Catholic Church
May 13, 2015 · By www.ap.org
VATICAN CITY – After Raul Castro paid a call Sunday on Pope Francis at the Vatican to thank him for working for Cuban-U.S. detente – the Cuban president said he was so impressed by the pontiff he is considering a return to the Catholic church’s fold. The pontiff “is a Jesuit, and I, in some […]
Read More...Belgian Bishop Ordered to Pay for Priest’s Sexual Abuse
May 5, 2015 · By News24.com.)
2015-04-24 08:01 Brussels – A Belgian court on Thursday ordered the Archbishop of Brussels to pay 10 000 euros in damages to a former choir boy subjected to sexual abuse by a priest. The plaintiff Joel Devillet, now 42, was raped by a priest in southern Belgium between 1987 and 1991. The earliest abuse happened […]
Read More...INDIA : Minister says 2,000 girls ‘killed’ every day
May 4, 2015 ·
INDIA : Minister says 2,000 girls ‘killed’ every day NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation via CNUA) Two thousand girls are “killed” every day due to a preference for sons in India with most aborted or murdered just after birth, the country’s minister for women and child development said. Despite laws that ban parents having tests […]
Read More...UN report: 2014 saw extremists use of rape, sexual slavery
April 23, 2015 ·
UN report: 2014 saw extremists use of rape, sexual slavery AP | Apr 14, 2015, 11.30AM IST By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS: UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said 2014 was marked by harrowing accounts of rape, sexual slavery and forced marriage being used by extremists including the Islamic State group and Boko Haram.In […]
Read More...St. Louis Archbishop Didn’t Know Sex With Children Was a Crime
April 22, 2015 ·
The St. Louis archbishop embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal testified last month that he didn’t know in the 1980s whether it was illegal for priests to have sex with children, according to a court deposition released Monday. Archbishop Robert Carlson, who was chancellor of the Archdiocese of Minneapolis and St. Paul at the time, […]
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