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- Category: Apostolic Letter
- Category: Blog
- Cardinal Pell – Looking Back
- My Holy-Week Peace (Becoming Catholic, Part III)
- John Allen vs. David von Drehle + Update from the Gulag
- Book Update + Talks
- Three Years Later: What Happened to the “Independent Commission?”
- The Holy See’s Policy of Secrecy and Concealment Allowed for Rampant Sexual Abuse in Catholic Church, Class Action Alleges
- Assumption Day, 2021
- The McC Criminal Case: Two Receptions
- Disturbing 35-Year-Old Echoes
- Grand-Jury Reports + McCarrick Charged With a Crime
- Father Mark White continues to fight for his faith
- Being Catholic Now, Q4: Two Letters
- The Cult of Secrecy
- I am a Moron
- Quick Update and Request
- Open Letter to Cardinal Cupich of Chicago
- Author Jewel Lee Herder, Ph.D.’s new book “Sexual Violence and the Violence of Silence” is a powerful dissertation about sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church
- Vlog: How Are Institutional Defendants Responding to Claims Brought Under the California Child Victims Act?
- Honoring the Legacy & Impact of “Spotlight” Editor Marty Baron
- “In Bad Faith” Fault Lines; Puts the Pressure on Cardinal Dolan and NY Abuser Msgr. John Paddack; Honors Survivors’ Stories
- The Church of the Stigmata
- The McCarrick of Wyoming
- The Unrepentant Syndicate
- Vatican Fails Again to Put Promise to Action – Reverses Diocese Decision That Sex Abuse Allegations Are Credible
- Waiting with hope for Church renewal.
- Regnum-Christi Memory Turned Painful
- My Offer to Help with the McC Report
- McC Report Literary Genre
- Updates in Michigan and Rome
- Part Two of Chapter III Draft
- James Still Deserves an Amanuensis + Lincoln’s Second Inaugural
- Second Part of Chapter II Draft
- Book about the Crisis, Reviewed for Profiles in Catholicism
- Update: “Remonstratio Placed Out of Time“
- First Part of Chapter II Draft Ordained by a Predator
- Second Part of Chapter 1 Draft
- White McCarrick Book Draft
- Message for Parishioners
- Institutional Integrity Interview + Gulag Dispatch Compendium
- A Ghost Speaks
- The Polding House Push and The Catholic Weekly Bugle.
- McCarrick Articles
- The One Who Sees Us Through Disaster
- Gulag Dispatch #8: Canonical Arguments + the Secret McCarrick Report
- Father Mark White Extended Interview
- ‘Paedophile Priest’ Released from Prison
- The Cruel Massachusetts Cesspool
- Guest Post: Judy Rogers
- Gulag Dispatch #6: What Does ‘Justice for Father Mark’ Mean?
- ‘Follow the Path of Truth Wherever it May Lead’
- Family, Not Feudalism
- Catholics want reform
- Thank You, Nathan Doe
- Delicta Graviora – An Essay for the Faithful
- New Survivor Blog — StandUpSpeakUp.org
- My letter to the Vatican
- Letter to Bishop Knestout
- Letter to Parishioners
- Update: The Heart of the Matter
- Canon Law commentary provides answers regarding child abuse by Catholic clergy
- Bishops are free to publish their reports; but they prefer to keep them secret
- A Plenary of Broken Promises?
- The Parish Church, Vigano, and Nathan Doe
- Final version of governance report to be published by mid-August
- TERRY FEWTRELL Catholic bishops need to give up secrecy and learn to trust
- Gulag Dispatch #5: Evangelization and Freedom of Speech/Religion
- PAUL COLLINS. First Step to a Better Church?
- JOHN MENADUE. The Light From the Southern Cross.A Report on Catholic Church Governance
- 600 Days and Counting: STILL No McCarrick Report
- A year later: An Evangelical commentary on the abuse summit in the Vatican
- Father Mark White and the Streisand Effect
- The Diocese of Rockville Centre, Child Sex Abuse, and the Rule of Law
- Centenary of JPII’s Birth
- Guest Post: Miss Kaitlyn Long
- The Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse: Why we need to know the whole truth.
- Pell-mell and reform paths in Catholic media
- Church leaders protected this criminal priest, Father Gerard Mulvale, resulting in a victim’s suicide
- Category: Canon Law
- Vatican tells bishops to get serious on crime and punishment
- On the protection of minors and vulnerable persons
- Correspondence from the Congregation for the Doctrine of mass of the entire Catholic Church, bishops and other Ordinaries and Eparchs interest REGARDING THE grave offenses to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the reserved
- The Code of Canon Law 1983
- Pastoral Letter of The Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI to the Catholics of Ireland
- Contribution of H.E. Msgr. Juan Ignacio Arrieta, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, and Professor Giuseppe Dalla Torre, former president of the Vatican City State Tribunal on the publication of the Rescript of the Holy Father Francis On the confidentiality of legal proceedings, 17.12.2019
- RESCRIPTUM EX AUDIENTIA SS.MI: Rescript of the Holy Father Francis to introduce some amendments to the “Normae de gravioribus delictis”, 17.12.2019
- Pope Francis abolishes the pontifical secret for sexual misconduct cases involving clerics
- Report of Dr Rodger Joseph Austin JCD STL in the Matter of John Andrew Ellis v His Eminence Cardinal George Pell & The Trustees of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney & ORS
- A Response to Dr Rodger Austin’s Report
- Kieran Tapsell. The Cunneen Report’s Comments on Canon and Civil Law
- Kieran Tapsell: Has the Pontifical Secret Been Secretly Buried?
- Kieran Tapsell – Pope Francis Abolishes the Pontifical Secret Over Child Sexual Abuse
- Victorian Parliament Child Abuse Inquiry: Submission to inquiry into process by which religious and other non-government organisations respond to the criminal abuse of children by personnel within their organisations
- Sex, Lies and Secret Codes (Extract) Page 47 plus endnotes
- Vatican papers spark debate: Clergy abuse protocol noted
- Kieran Tapsell. Canon Law and the Truth, Justice and Healing Council
- 1962 document orders secrecy in sex cases. Many bishops unaware obscure missive was in their archives
- Popes ordered silence, former judge Kieran Tapsell claims in book
- Instruction on the manner of proceeding in cases of Solicitation (Crimen Sollicitationis)
- Instruction on the manner of proceeding in cases of Solicitation
- OPINION: Pontifical secret allows abuse to go unpunished. Kieran Tapsell
- Category: Change Org Petition
- 35,000 Sign Petition Launched By Clergy Abuse Survivor To Defrock Cardinal George Pell
- Clergy abuse survivor draws support for petition to defrock Pell
- Defrock Cardinal George Pell
- What did George Pell tell Royal Commission?
- Pope Francis please mandate all abuse is reported to civil authorities. Canon Law✍
- Archbishop Comensoli apologise to Eileen Piper & allow access to relevant files: Stephanie
- Category: Child Abuse Royal Commission
- History will not be kind to George Pell, as royal commission reveals its secret findings
- Royal commission finds Pell ‘conscious’ of priests abusing children in early ’70s
- George Pell: cardinal was aware of children being sexually abused, royal commission report finds
- Case Study 35: Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne
- Case Study 28: Catholic Church authorities in Ballarat
- Royal commission’s Pell findings in days
- Health and Integrity in Church and Ministry
- Priests in group shut down by Vatican accused of sex abuse
- Report of Dr Rodger Austin JCD STL Canon Law
- Kieran Tapsell: Summary of Response to Dr Rodger Austin and Sr Moya Hanlen
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Final Report Australia 17 Volumes
- Category: Child Sexual Abuse
- Catholic cardinal accused of sexual assault in Canada
- Timor-Leste: Political leadership, patriarchal relationships, and the paedophile priest
- MacKillop banished after uncovering sex abuse
- What Else is Archbishop Aymond Hiding?
- A painful, necessary reminder
- A.W. Richard Sipe, a Leading Expert on Clergy Sex Abuse, Dies at 85
- New lawsuit says current pastor is a child molester
- New Orleans SNAP Reacts To Archbishop Aymond Adding Fr. Brian Highfill to the List of Credibly Accused Clerics
- Victims question Kamala Harris’ record on clergy abuse
- Silenced priest warns of gay crisis
- New Abuse Lawsuit Filed Concerning Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick
- Dolan Defies Demands of Survivors, Provides Safe Harbor & Continuing Cover-Up For Monsignor John Paddack
- Archdiocese of Newark Faces Nine New Sex Abuse Lawsuits
- Reporting abuse — the church’s blind spot
- Paedophile Offender: Brother Stephen Farrell
- Victims of clerical sex abuse suffer from P.T.S.D. They deserve better treatment.
- Red Mass for judges, lawyers defended amid protests at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne
- New Catholic Archbishop is confronted by 93yo Eileen Piper over child abuse
- An exploration of the existence of clergy child sexual abuse dark networks within the Victorian Catholic Church
- Canon Law a Systemic factor in Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church submission to The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
- Submission to Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children Inquiry
- Submission to Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children Inquiry
- Protecting Victoria’s Vulnerable Children Inquiry
- RMIT University: Child Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: an interpretive review of literature and public inquiry reports
- Category: Crimen Sollicitationis
- Category: Crisis: Clergy Abuse in the Catholic Church Podcast
- Bonus Content: The Survivors’ Movement
- Crisis Episode 4: Survivors’ Voices
- Crisis Episode 3: What Caused the Crisis? Show Notes
- Church’s ongoing clergy abuse scandals recounted in new podcast
- New podcast sends clear message: Abuse crisis isn’t over yet
- Crisis: Episode 2: Show Notes
- Crisis: Clergy Abuse in the Catholic Church
- Category: Final Reports and Publications
- The 2019 Annual Report on the Implementation of the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People”
- Report Of Case Study No. 28 Catholic Church authorities in Ballarat
- Ballarat Royal Commission report could be released ‘within weeks’, says Attorney-General
- The Age of Inquiry: A global mapping of institutional abuse inquiries
- Final Public Hearing into the Catholic Church in Australia
- The Age of Inquiry: A global mapping of institutional abuse inquiries
- Category: George Pell
- How George Pell failed child sex abuse victims: the full findings of the royal commission report
- Catholic church loses high court bid to prevent father of George Pell accuser suing for damages
- Pell’s posthumous complaints have diminished his legacy
- ‘Petty’: ribbons for abuse victims removed from Sydney church hosting Pell funeral
- Pell’s ‘catastrophe’ memorandum stains his legacy
- George Pell could have helped. He made it worse.
- Sexual abuse victims know the truth. George Pell allowed lives to be destroyed to protect himself and the Catholic church
- Full Story: David Marr on the life and legacy of Cardinal George Pell
- A school principal gave up everything to blow the whistle on a paedophile priest. George Pell hung up on him
- ‘He didn’t even look me in the eye’: one survivor on how George Pell chose the church over children
- George Pell’s death could renew distress for Ballarat’s child abuse survivors
- Premier Daniel Andrews ‘very clear’ there will not be a state memorial service for George Pell in Victoria
- Gerald Ridsdale photo that haunted George Pell for decades
- Anger mounts among child abuse advocates as George Pell cast as a ‘saint’
- George Pell: what the five-year royal commission into child sexual abuse found
- Families of clergy abuse victims’ new legal precedent paves way for litigation
- Australian court rules family of deceased choirboy can sue Catholic church
- Catholic Church says family members not included in victim laws
- George Pell not ‘fit and proper’ to be archbishop or priest, lawsuit claims
- Father’s civil case against Catholic Church, George Pell reaches court
- Former choirboy’s father launches civil action against George Pell and Catholic Church
- Father of former choirboy sues Catholic Church, George Pell
- Demonstration Planned For Cardinal Pell Event
- Australia’s Holy See ambassador under fire for saying she wants to change ‘narrative’ away from George Pell
- Post-punk maestros YFC reunite with a sonic middle finger to George Pell
- Podcast: Covid cases are rising in Vatican City. Is Pope Francis at risk?
- Pope meets Cardinal Pell at Vatican
- Analysis: Cardinal Becciu is accused of setting up Pell. But facts are few
- George Pell Australian accuser denies Cardinal Angelo Becciu bribe
- George Pell heckled outside Rome apartment ahead of possible Vatican meeting with Pope Francis
- Cardinal George Pell heckled on return to Rome
- Why is Australia’s Cardinal Pell returning to Rome?
- George Pell: Cardinal to return to Rome for first time since acquittal
- Up-close account of Pell’s historic trial raises an uncomfortable question
- Jesse Mulligan talks with Melissa Davey
- Pell lashes out after gays refused communion
- Cardinal talks of ordeal to students
- The last word on George Pell
- Inside stories: Lawyers on the trials of the Pell case
- THE CASE OF GEORGE PELL reckoning with child sexual abuse by clergy
- Editorial: Cardinal truths
- Podcast: Will the Royal Commission’s investigation bring any consequences for Cardinal Pell?
- Pell Again
- Monsignor denies George Pell kept in dark about alleged paedophile Peter Searson
- ‘I’m not a used car salesman’: Can the archbishop chart a new course?
- OPINION Cardinal Pell: a legacy of shame and failure
- ‘Why didn’t he help those little boys?’: how George Pell failed the children of Ballarat
- What George Pell Knew
- The hidden findings on George Pell are now clear: he could have protected children from abuse. He didn’t
- Cardinal Pell’s release stokes concerns about Australia’s plenary council
- The interview that exposed Pell’s lie
- Royal commission findings about Cardinal George Pell could be made public. Here’s what we know
- Cardinal Pell: A decision with little certainty
- Cardinal Pell’s acquittal stirs abuse survivor memories in Ballarat hometown
- Daniel Andrews asks PM to reveal redacted Pell report in full
- Australia’s high court overturns guilty verdict against Cardinal George Pell on final appeal
- EXCLUSIVE: Yet another assault allegation emerges against George Pell
- Two More Victims Allege Abuse at the Hands of Cardinal George Pell
- The Monster Pell Has Been Caged At Last
- Category: Global Mapping
- Category: Instruction
- Category: Ireland
- Category: Kieran Tapsell
- Pope Francis and practising what one preaches
- Canon Law on Child Sexual Abuse Through the Ages
- Potiphar’s Wife: The Vatican’s Secret and Child Sexual Abuse
- Pope Francis finally makes bishops accountable for cover-ups
- George Pell’s logic on child sex abuse is flawed
- Broome Bishop bows out of national conference as police and Vatican investigations continue
- The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse: It’s Time To Come Clean
- The ball is in Pope Francis’ court over the culture of cover-up
- Australian bishop testifies on prevalence of child sex abuse in the church
- Category: Madonnina
- Category: News
- Identities of abusers should be listed on church websites, WA child sexual abuse inquiry finds
- New report in Western Australia says Catholic Church must do more to help abuse victims
- Further details of retired Bishop Christopher Saunders’ court case revealed after suppression order lifted
- Former nuns call on pope to launch inquiry into priest they say sexually abused them
- Former bishop of Broome Christopher Saunders charged over historical sexual abuse allegations
- Pope Francis accused of opposing reforms to tackle clerical sexual abuse
- Vatican priest advisor on sexuality barred from priestly ministry
- Victorian court allows abused altar boy’s children and wife to sue Catholic church
- Benedict’s brief papacy was marred by the priest sex abuse scandal
- New report on clergy abuse during John Paul II’s tenure in Poland sparks intense debate
- Priest close to Pope Francis accused of inviting two nuns to take part in a ‘Holy Trinity’ threesome
- Crisis of confidence over cardinal shakes Cologne Catholics
- Jesuit priests demand transparency in Vatican’s artist case
- France opens investigation into cardinal who admitted to sexually abusing 14-year-old girl
- Australia’s Archbishop Costelloe: Women’s ordination and church governance are ‘big theological questions’
- Pope calls female genital mutilation a crime that must stop
- The rebel priest standing up to the Catholic Church
- Vatican’s anti-child abuse panel to issue first full report in 2024
- Vatican’s quiet reprimand of US bishop raises concerns about pope’s clergy abuse law
- Secondary survivors of historic clergy abuse speak out in Australian-first Quilt of Hope book
- Churches defend clergy loophole in child sex abuse reporting
- Lawyers audition for Catholics work Corrs vacated
- New York archdiocese: ‘Vos estis’ Hubbard records can’t be turned over in sex abuse lawsuit
- Death of paedophile priest Francis Cable, aka Brother Romuald, makes victim’s mum glad
- New Zealand child abuse survivors call for intervention from Pope Francis
- Pope declares ‘zero tolerance’ for Catholic Church abuse, saying he takes personal responsibility for ending it
- Former Christian Brothers College Warrnambool students seek compensation following alleged historical abuse
- Former CBC Fremantle student claims chaplain Damian Barker sexually abused boys in ‘lockable confessional’
- In Canada, Pope Francis apologizes for ‘evil’ of sex abuse, vows ‘never again’
- Canada says pope’s apology to Indigenous not enough
- Law Firm Ends Relationship with Catholic Church
- Pope Francis condemns forced assimilation of Canada’s residential schools as ‘incompatible with the Gospel’
- Safeguarding in Birmingham was ‘shambolic’ says top abuse lawyer
- Pope Francis tells religious orders: Do not be ashamed to denounce abusive priests and brothers.
- Exclusive: Pope Francis calls steps against clerical abuse irreversible, despite resistance
- FBI opens sweeping probe of clergy sex abuse in New Orleans
- Pope apologises to Comboni survivors
- Paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan dead at 84
- Cardinal Angelo Sodano dead at 94
- Boston cardinal tells Italian bishops ‘facing truth’ is only way to tackle abuse
- Becciu denies bid to influence Pell trial
- Voice of the Faithful puts children first with new study of diocesean child protection efforts
- Pope warns of lost trust without more abuse accountability
- Report: Becciu payments to Australian tech firm for domain name registration
- Becciu did not pay to accuse Pell, a document proves it
- In shockingly frank deposition, former bishop admits moving alleged abusers from treatment to ministry
- Cardinal Becciu not bound by pontifical secret in Vatican finance trial, judge rules
- Vatican insider expects residential school apology in Canada
- Pope releases Vatican reform, gives weight to fighting abuse
- Chile’s new leader puts bishops on notice over legacy of abuse scandals
- Vatican cardinal says donations went to charity, not brother
- Catholic Church ‘should be more like Alcoholics Anonymous’
- Time’s up for Catholic Church in Italy to reckon with clerical abuse, survivor group says
- Church abuse record ‘makes a mockery’ of moral leadership
- Why is an abuser still working as a priest?
- Has the Catholic Church Been Covering Up Its Biggest Pedophile Priest Problem?
- NZ royal commission hears from survivors abused by Bernard McGrath ahead of Australian transfer
- Father Hans Zollner on the German sex abuse report, Pope Benedict and the future of the church
- Church is incapable of cleaning up abuse mess on its own, says former Munich archdiocesan official
- Spain’s legislature to launch clerical abuse investigation
- Italy’s Church needs child sex abuse inquiry – Vatican advisor
- Catholic Church in New Zealand discovers 14 per cent of clergy accused of abuse, with Cardinal describing findings as ‘horrifying’
- For years, Cardinal Marx has been face of Catholic Church in Germany
- Spain’s government vows to investigate Catholic Church abuse
- Pope Benedict faulted over sex abuse claims: New report is just one chapter in his – and Catholic Church’s – fraught record
- Progress made on abuse, but much yet to be done, say experts
- Child abuse: Vatican child protection expert says prelates should apologise for abuse cover up
- Benedict XVI admits ‘incorrect’ info given to abuse inquiry
- Ex-Pope Benedict accused of failing to act in Munich Church abuse report
- Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI provided 82 pages of information for upcoming clerical abuse report
- Potentially explosive report will document handling of sex abuse in Pope Benedict’s former diocese
- Victorian Catholic diocese found vicariously liable for child sexual abuse in landmark ruling
- Vatican laicizes Ohio priest convicted of sexually exploiting children
- Heartbreak relived: Catholic Church seeks abuse victim’s abortion record
- ‘Horrendous crimes’: East Timor priest jailed for 12 years for child sex abuse
- Catholic Church in Australia publishes annual report on abuse
- Rev. James Scahill reflects on 20 years of bucking the Roman Catholic church over clergy abuse
- Phil Saviano, clergy abuse victim who refused to stay silent, dies at 69
- Astoundingly candid bishop says Catholic Church is a shattered remains of its former self
- Defrocked Cardinal McCarrick named in sex abuse lawsuit
- Why is Spain’s Catholic Church refusing an independent investigation into sex abuse claims?
- Sex abuse survivors urge bishops to denounce Church Militant’s agenda
- Pope thanks journalists for helping expose Church sex scandals
- ‘It’s being abused by an entire belief system’: a haunting film on sexual abuse by Catholic clergy
- Survivors of abuse by Catholic Church at Christchurch school to give evidence to Royal Commission
- France’s top bishop acknowledges that law takes precedence over confession secrecy
- Catholic priests in France ‘must report abuse allegations heard in confession’
- Pope ‘shamed’ by church’s failures over child abuse in France
- Report finds 216,000 children were victims of French clergy sex abuse since 1950
- Bid by Catholic church to stop child sexual abuse case rejected by NSW supreme court
- ‘Suffering of clerical abuse survivors offers seeds for more faithful Church’
- Given abuse reforms, expert says bishops have ‘no excuse’ for failure
- A long wait for a trial just got shorter for a former altar boy who survived clergy abuse
- ‘Cardinal Keith O’Brien was like God to me. Then he tried to seduce me’: the whistleblower’s tale
- Theodore McCarrick, the highest ranking priest charged in clergy abuse scandal, arraigned on sexual assault charges
- Expert says Poland experiencing a sea change on clerical abuse
- Survivors abused by ‘sadistic’ priest win compensation battle, but money ‘won’t change’ impact
- A survivor’s quagmire | Two decades after a Cheshire woman reported clergy abuse, she’s back to square one, again. Was her file lost or destroyed?
- More Clergy Abuse Is Finally Being Prosecuted, No Thanks To The Church, A Lawyer Says
- Italy’s top prelate visits Perugia parish whose pastor was arrested
- Priest in Perugia arrested on charges of child porn, prostitution
- Former Buffalo seminary professor pleads guilty to stalking investigative reporter
- New sex abuse lawsuit names Theodore McCarrick, Fr. Michael Barrett
- Defrocked cardinal Theodore McCarrick charged with sexually assaulting teenager in 1970s
- Legal payout brings hope for other victims of paedophile priest
- Top U.S. Catholic church official resigns after cellphone data used to track him on Grindr and to gay bars
- Catholic priest outspoken about clergy abuse faces removal as Richmond Bishop petitions The Vatican
- Defrocked Catholic priest Richard Lavigne in deathbed tapes: ‘I assume I’m going to heaven’ (audio)
- As Catholic Church balked at paying residential school settlement, Quebec nuns sold nearly $25M in real estate
- Catholic Church in Poland Discloses Hundreds of Sexual Abuse Accusations
- WATCH NOW: Father Mark White brings in a sexual-abuse victim to tell his story of ‘all the worst stuff’
- Sisters of St. Ann open First Nation residential school archive to museum to aid probe into child graves
- UN investigators call on Vatican to do more to stop abuse
- UN experts urge Catholic Church to act against sexual abuse, provide reparations
- Statement by UN ‘experts’ seeks to discredit the Holy See
- ‘Bravo to Louisiana’: Governor removes deadlines for child sex abuse suits
- Former Christian Brother Ted Bales admits to abusing another 19 children
- Pope Francis rejects Cardinal Marx’s offer of resignation, calls on all bishops to take responsibility for the abuse crisis
- New Vatican document ‘very disappointing’, says campaigner
- Pope, Canadian Cardinals meet amid calls for church to act on residential schools
- Cardinal Marx offers Pope Francis his resignation, citing ‘responsibility for the catastrophe of sexual abuse’
- Vatican law criminalizes abuse of adults by priests, laity
- Discovery of mass grave of Indigenous children prompts grief and questions in Canada
- Advocate For Clergy Abuse Victims Calls For Release Of Files On Ex-Priest Accused Of Murder
- Former Springfield priest killed 13-year-old boy in 1972: Hampden District Attorney
- DA: ‘Significant development’ in 1972 slaying of altar boy Danny Croteau to close case
- ‘A ticking time bomb’: Timor-Leste begins to reckon with alleged Catholic church sex abuse
- Montreal shepherd says anti-abuse protocols based on simple idea: ‘It needs to stop’
- FFRF calls on AG Garland to investigate Catholic abuse and cover-up
- Pope’s man in Mexico says clergy, bishops covered up child abuse
- Revised canon law on crimes, penalties almost ready for publication
- Archdiocese ordered to provide details in Westchester teacher sex abuse lawsuit
- Catholic Church investigating claims children were prostituted to Church officials
- Vatican responds to bishops’ call to amend Church law on crimes against minors
- Plaque memorializing priest accused of abuse has been covered over, photograph shows
- Bill giving some child sex abuse victims more time to sue passes Louisiana House
- ‘Vos Estis’ expires in one year. What works and what changes are needed in version 2.0?
- Catholic church unveils new system for reporting sexual abuse committed or covered up by bishops
- Canadian bishops unveil new system to report bishops for abuse, cover-up
- Marist Brothers Catholic order hid abuse by member who helped run Chicago school in the 1970s, suits say
- Priest who abused ECHS student may have many more victims, lawyer says
- Ex-priest indicted, accused of sexually assaulting Va. teen in 1979
- Gretna councilman says he’s victim of notorious clergy abuser at dramatic legislative hearing
- Anti-abuse center gets upgrade, sensing both progress and frustration
- Kaul launches clergy sexual abuse probe
- Woelki calls for stronger law on clerical sex abuse
- Attorneys: Prominent figures left out of Catholic diocese list on abuse allegations
- Parishes enlisted to help pay clergy abuse victims
- Wisconsin to launch statewide investigation of clergy sex abuse, attorney general document reveals
- A Historic Resignation
- At Vatican abuse trial, priests cast doubt on testimony of witness
- Accountability, transparency, due process still needed, abuse experts say
- Law firm starts database of Catholic child abuse
- ‘I can move on’: $1.5 million payout to St Alipius sex abuse survivor
- Legal lessons: Past abuse cases help train canon lawyers
- ‘Profound evil’ of abuse must be eradicated, Pope Francis tells symposium
- Defrocked US priest revered in East Timor accused of abuse
- Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Claims Tucson Was “Dumping Ground” For Predatory Catholic Priests
- Fourth Victim Alleges Sex Abuse By Father Pfleger, Attorney Says
- Germany’s Christian churches in meltdown
- Gay priests: Breaking the silence
- Vatican trial: Ex-student says he witnessed abuse at minor seminary
- Pope Francis names Juan Carlos Cruz, prominent abuse survivor and whistleblower, to Vatican panel
- Catholic Church structure to blame for abuse in care, priest tells inquiry
- Marist Regional College apologises to survivors of historic child sex abuse
- German archbishop offers to resign after abuse criticism
- Cologne Archdiocese awaits potentially explosive report on abuse
- Polish cardinal could face jail time for failing to report abuse
- For No Reason At All, Here’s A Reminder That The Vatican Covered Up A Global Pedophilia Problem
- Sacked priest in Timor-Leste ‘will remain defrocked’
- Faith-based Institutions To Front Royal Commission On Redress For Abuse
- Scholars Confront Clergy Sexual Abuse in Native American Communities
- French Catholic clergy may have abused at least 10,000 people since 1950, say investigators
- Donors’ group asks funders to sign pledge supporting child protection policies
- The Conscience of the Catholic Church
- ‘Spotlight’ editor on retirement: Clergy abuse coverage has permanently changed church
- Will the Vatican investigate a cardinal implicated in its own abuse trial?
- Top German bishop laments ‘scandalous’ image of church
- Clergy sex abuse survivors and whistleblower priests join together for healing and worship
- N4T Investigators: Clergy privilege bill fails
- Protection of minors: A balance is needed
- Sex abuse survivors lose archive as Facebook removes news from ‘life saving’ site
- Delayed Legion of Christ extortion trial goes ahead in Italy
- Poland’s Catholic church accused of failing to take action against paedophile priest for 25 years
- Abuse case at Vatican pre-seminary captures risk, reward of transparency
- New York’s Catholic church leaders control billions outside the reach of abuse survivors
- New Orleans archdiocese announces changes to how it will respond to clerical abuse claims
- Kansas Catholic bishop under investigation by KBI for alleged sexual abuse of a minor
- Judge green lights lawsuits against Archdiocese of Santa Fe
- Christian pastor Bob Cotton’s call to increase penalties for covering up child sex abuse
- Catholic Church paedophile networks to be mapped ‘like organised crime’ by academics
- Victim speaks out after abusive priest sentenced
- Australian police say no criminal misconduct in Vatican funds transfer
- ‘Just sick over it’: Clergy sexual abuse victims, their advocates lament error that derailed Pa. amendment
- There’s another path for survivors of clergy sex abuse to get justice. It faces an uphill climb in the legislature.
- Angry over botched constitutional amendment, Pa. lawmakers call for action to aid child sexual abuse victims
- Germany: Calls for cardinal to release report on sexual abuse of minors
- California bishops fighting 2019 clergy sex abuse law
- Conspiracy claims made against Age before Pell story published, court told
- Vatican clears former Kansas City priest of sex abuse claims, infuriating victims
- Vatican clears retired US bishop of multiple abuse claims
- Brothers accuse prominent Chicago priest of sexual abuse
- Bill would eliminate clergy privilege, require reporting of child abuse
- In a first for Spain, Jesuits admit to decades of sex abuse
- Catholic Church makes record payout in child sex abuse case
- Probe of Crookston bishop in month 15, while Catholics urge action
- A ‘time of crisis’ for Poland’s Catholic Church
- Buffalo’s new Catholic bishop says he will remove abusers and their enablers
- EXCLUSIVE: Leaked transcript shows NY church’s attempt to block Child Victims Act
- Priest accused of abetting alleged sex abuse ring hired by diocesan charity
- Trove of Buffalo Diocese abuse records turned over to victims in bankruptcy court
- The Mystery of the Vatican – Australia money pipeline
- Sociologist and criminologist to produce police-style ‘social network analysis’ of clerical crime across the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic diocese
- Fall River Diocese releases names of clergy accused of abuse
- Is Money Laundering the Reason for Unexplained Funds Transfer from the Vatican to Australia?
- Australian agency reviewing data on Vatican money transfers
- Australian bishops puzzled by reported money transfers from Vatican
- Attorneys: NJ diocese’s bankruptcy plan hurts sexual abuse survivors
- Statement of Attorney Jeff Anderson on Bishop’s Self-Serving Scheme to Limit Rights Provided Under Child Sexual Abuse Act
- Seattle archbishop is stonewalling push for more transparency of church sex-abuse cases, group contends
- Vatican fund transfers to Aust a mystery
- Insurance company sues Diocese of Brooklyn over sex abuse cases alleging it knew of prolific abuser
- Attorneys for alleged church sex abuse victim ask court to unseal deposition of accused priest
- Catholic Church’s insurance company in financial trouble over abuse payouts
- Church’s appeal loss paves way for abuse survivors to sue
- Monster in our midst: How pedophile New Orleans clergyman stayed near prey
- McCarrick report shows need to focus on survivors, panel says
- Inter-American Human Rights Commission to look into clerical sexual abuse
- The U.K. is reckoning with a clerical sex abuse crisis. Again.
- Priest listed in sex abuse report was working at church camp in 1958 when deaf boy, 10, disappeared
- Report uncovers 9 new abusive Catholic priests, 46 more victims; number of abused children climbs to 212
- Sins of the fathers: Ireland’s sex abuse survivors
- Two secular lawsuits raise deeply ecclesiastical conundra
- Decades before the Vatican’s McCarrick report, there was a mother on a secret mission
- Alleging sex abuse, 4 sue Vatican over handling of McCarrick
- NJ priest is among four McCarrick victims seeking information from Vatican in federal suit
- McCarrick report rings familiar to former Newark seminarians
- McCarrick whistleblower: ‘At last, somebody was going to pay attention to what I had to say’
- N.J. bishops’ letters helped pave McCarrick’s path to power
- Pope Francis responds to McCarrick report with vow to end sexual abuse
- ‘It’s crushing’: Survivors react to McCarrick abuse report
- Cardinal Parolin on McCarrick Report: moved by the truth to avoid past errors
- Deep Dive: The McCarrick Report and the popes it implicates
- Virtual Press Event Today: Jeff Anderson Responds to the Release of the Vatican Report on Cardinal Theodore McCarrick
- Vatican report tracks McCarrick’s rise despite allegations of abuse and misconduct
- ‘We want the truth’: Catholics hope for honesty in McCarrick report
- Virtual Press Event Today: Jeff Anderson Discusses the Upcoming Vatican Report on Cardinal Theodore McCarrick
- The Vatican’s McCarrick report: a timeline of events
- Priest urges Vatican to intervene as fresh sexual misconduct allegations emerge from the Diocese of Broome
- Paul Shanley, priest at center of sex scandal, dead at 89
- Vatican announces McCarrick Report will be published on Nov. 10
- Former Woonsocket priest charged with molesting three boys
- ‘Vos estis’ inquiry into Polish Catholic archbishop advances
- Priest abuse victims question if Archdiocese properly investigated, referred cases to Vatican
- ‘McCarrick Report’ could be ‘black-eye’ for Church, Cardinal Dolan says
- Vatican’s report on ex-cardinal McCarrick expected within weeks
- Priest who denied Pope Francis laicized, bishop urges reparation for clergy sexual abuse
- O.C. bishop sues charity administrator who accused Catholic leader of wrongdoing
- Former papal secretary asserts innocence
- Report: Cardinal Woelki would step down if implicated in abuse cover-ups
- Reviled by Catholic leaders, this NJ activist has helped many victims of clergy sex abuse
- New Orleans archdiocese seeks laicization for all clergy credibly accused of sex abuse
- Slidell priest accused of molesting teen now behind bars in St. Tammany Parish jail
- Napier church fence tied with ribbons to raise awareness of child sexual abuse
- Rev. Pat Wattigny, Louisiana priest accused of sexual abuse, arrested in Georgia
- Archbishop Aymond asking all diocesan priests credibly accused of child sex abuse to leave the clergy entirely
- 11 men have been charged as Attorney General’s clergy abuse investigation hits 2-year mark
- One N.J. Catholic diocese has filed for bankruptcy. Will the other 4 follow?
- Royal commission files reveal previously unseen details about abuse by priests in Newcastle
- Ousted cardinal says he will sue media over allegations involving Pell trial
- Ousted priest writes new book: “Ordained by a Predator”
- Survivor group demands Vatican investigation of New Orleans archdiocese
- Historic victory for clergy sex abuse victims
- Catholic abuse survivor says the money is not enough, she wants answers
- Pope removes Polish bishop accused of sex abuse cover-up
- New Orleans Archdiocese Priests Rally in Support of Archbishop Aymond
- Basilians refuse to answer questions about alleged pedophile priest moved through Catholic schools
- Priest who allegedly admitted 2013 child sex abuse under investigation by St. Tammany deputies
- Poland becomes testing ground for Vatican’s new anti-abuse legislation
- Two priests accused in Vatican’s first sexual abuse trial
- 7 Names To Be Added To New Orleans Clergy Abuse List
- Ex-Merrillville priest accused of abuse, faking assault is defrocked, church says
- 14 priests from Toronto teaching order involved in sex assault cases
- New Orleans archbishop calls priest’s acts ‘demonic,’ cleanses small town church
- SNAP calls for Vatican investigation after alleged orgy on church altar
- ARCHBISHOP ‘INFURIATED’ BY PEARL RIVER PRIEST’S ACTIONS, SAYS ALTAR HAS BEEN BURNED
- In case related to abuse at minor seminary, two priests face trial at Vatican
- Abuse survivors despair as Pell conspiracy breaks cover
- Claim bribes paid to frame George Pell as sex abuser ‘ludicrous’, complainant’s father says
- Shocking Allegations From Pearl River Priest’s Arrest Last Week
- Gonzaga and Fordham partner to investigate clergy sexual abuse
- Pope Francis Meets With Australian Nuncio, Amid 700k-Euro Bank Transfer Allegation
- Majority of Camden Diocese Abuse Claims Left Unprocessed Amid Bankruptcy Filing
- Cash-strapped Buffalo Diocese wants to speed up bankruptcy case
- Former priest Sabine Griego dies weeks before trial
- Priest in NJ, former prep school chaplain, charged with endangering students
- R.I. judge hears arguments over whether diocese can be sued as ‘perpetrator’ of abuse
- Before priest Pat Wattigny admitted sex abuse, texts to student led to resignation from Slidell school, church says
- Becciu accused of sending Vatican funds to Australia during Pell trial
- Church sex abuse lawsuit by Navajo man targets diocese in Arizona, Indiana
- Report finds flaws in Catholic Church abuse-prevention plans
- Church’s legal defence ‘dismantled’ after sex abuse pay-off thrown out
- Former President of Ireland says some of Church teaching is “long past its sell-by date”
- Cardinal Becciu denies wrongdoing, says Pope Francis asking for his resignation was ‘surreal’
- Top expert fears abuse of minors within families has increased during lockdown
- Church must tackle underlying causes of abuse, expert says
- Powerful Vatican Cardinal Becciu resigns amid financial scandal
- Archbishop John Myers, retired Newark archbishop, dead at 79
- Chilean abuse survivors fear COVID crisis will stop investigations into accused clergy
- Former De La Salle principal, fellow religious brother accused of molesting student in 1980s
- Sex abuse survivor urges Catholic diocese to drop Supreme Court appeal at silent vigil
- Former Bellingham priest named in child sex abuse settlement
- Polish bishop let priest accused of sex abuse keep teaching children – Vatican orders investigation
- Bankruptcy judge sets deadline for filing clergy abuse claims against diocese
- Queensland Bishop Michael McCarthy says priests will not break seal of confession to report sex abuse, despite new law
- For Australia, child protection outweighs religious freedom, ambassador says
- Pope Francis: ‘Never again to the culture of abuse’
- Ex-Cardinal McCarrick had 2nd beach house linked to mysterious debt and unusual history
- Queensland passes law to jail priests for not reporting confessions of child sexual abuse
- Putting Children First: Child Protection Week 2020
- Bishop-elect of Duluth resigns following sexual abuse allegation
- Abuse survivors call trusts ‘fraudulent’
- Vatican tells Australian Church that seal of confession not up for debate
- Poland’s agreement with Vatican helps protect abusers, NSS tells UN
- Group demands local diocese add new name to list of credibly accused abusers
- Holy See Offers observations on Royal Commission recommendations
- Former Red Bank Catholic HS Student Alleges Sex Abuse By Priest
- Amid pandemic, domestic and sexual abuse is skyrocketing. Activists worry that news is being buried.
- Ex-priest is accused of abusing 4 kids. Monett woman says church ignored her pleas.
- St. Mary’s sex-assault victims speak out
- Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver covered up systemic abuse, silenced survivors for decades, lawsuit claims
- 11 victims who claim Lawrence priest sexually abused them settle for $1.4M: Mitchell Garabedian
- Archbishop ‘chose the wrong path’ in ignoring priest’s sexual abuse of his flock, B.C. judge says
- Strengthened clerical abuse guidelines welcome, but much still to be done
- O.C.’s bishop, a $12-million problem and a secret fight stretching to the Vatican
- Two more sex abuse suits filed against ABQ orphanage
- Ex-Bishop Michael Bransfield’s ‘creepy’ behavior detailed
- Priest recently added to New Orleans’ credibly accused clergy roster also put on Las Vegas list
- Lawsuit: Diocese of Alexandria frequently moved priest accused of sexual abuse
- WATCH NOW: Father Mark White and supporters stage second vigil in Richmond, file second appeal to Vatican
- Column: Appeal shows London diocese not ready to ‘do the right thing,’ sex abuse survivor says
- Royal Commission launches separate probe into Marylands abuse
- Former West Virginia bishop apologizes, reimburses diocese
- Vatican agrees to weakened restitution for West Virginia bishop accused of sexual and financial misdeeds
- Pope calls for ‘freeing’ the Virgin Mary from the devotion of the Mafia
- New Orleans’ Archdiocese Adds Priest to Credibly Accused List After Almost 2 Decades of Allegations
- Findlay priest charged with sex trafficking
- Former altar boy alleges sexual misconduct by McCarrick in lawsuit
- ‘Holy Silence’ Documents the Vatican’s Role in the Holocaust
- Peter Schweizer: Kamala Harris Refused to Prosecute Priests’ Sexual Abuse After Church’s Lawyers Funded Her Campaign
- W Virginia’s Catholic bishop says emeritus Bishop Bransfield not in contact
- After the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis, female theologians are calling for changes to leadership
- KBI received 205 reports of priest abuse; opened 120 cases
- Catholic Diocese of Lexington releases names of priests accused of sexual abuse
- Slew of church abuse lawsuits hinges on state court decision
- Ex-archbishop in Chile dies before facing trial for sex abuse
- Accused Priest Excommunicated
- Group Of Parishioners Disappointed In Diocese Of Pittsburgh’s Changes After Grand Jury Report On Clergy Sexual Abuse
- Pope cleans house in Poland after abuse, cover-up scandal
- Kamala Harris Failed to Prosecute Priest Sex Abuse Cases Despite Victims’ Pleas
- Jeremy Leatherby: Details emerge of charges against excommunicated priest
- New lawsuit claims Ellwood priest molested siblings for years
- Paedophile priest Vincent Gerard Ryan has priestly faculties removed
- Catholic order’s list of accused shows past of mishandling abuse allegations
- Questions of abuse cover-up directed at incoming St. Louis archbishop, but details unclear
- Lay group urges Pittsburgh Diocese to do more to restore broken trust
- Waiting for the McCarrick Report
- Pope says fighting clerical abuse fosters deeper respect for life
- Judge: Lawsuit over alleged clergy abuse can go ahead in Hancock County
- Archdiocese of St. John’s deemed to be vicariously liable in Mount Cashel victims’ suit
- Magazine report is aimed at silencing nuns on sex abuse, says Vatican critic
- Two more Catholic priests accused of child sexual abuse in southern New Mexico
- WATCH NOW: Father Mark White appeals to Washington’s Archbishop. Next stop: Rome
- Vicar general of Springfield diocese won’t accept reappointment, says he was ‘unfairly’ portrayed in Weldon report
- Victims advocate demands transparency as Camden Diocese suspends compensation fund
- New York extends window for abuse lawsuits
- Latin Americans press fight against clerical sexual abuse
- Diocese of Covington names 90 with substantiated allegations of sexual abuse of a minor
- Camden’s Roman Catholic diocese suspends payments to clergy abuse victims, citing COVID-19 financial stress
- After being removed from his post for speaking out against abuse, a Martinsville Catholic priest takes his fight to DC
- Clergy abuse survivors call for more transparency
- Abuse victims say Archdiocese of New Orleans must reveal ‘secret’
- FBI: Queens Priest Shared Sexually Explicit Texts Photos With 15-Year-Old Boy
- Survivors’ group in Chile condemns abuse ‘secretism’ of Catholic Church
- Church in Argentina is making a ‘change in mentality’ on clerical sexual abuse
- St. John’s Roman Catholic corporation liable for abuses at Mount Cashel orphanage: appeals court
- Scholars seek to establish ‘truth and reconciliation’ structures for clerical abuse
- VA Catholic priest blogged about child sex abuse. Now, he says bishop is threatening to defrock him
- Judge Denies Cardinal McCarrick’s Motion To Throw Out Child Sex Abuse Case
- The power of the pulpit
- New Orleans priest continued serving 13 years after abuse claim landed him in treatment
- Saintly caution: Church’s reputation on the line when judging sanctity
- Lawsuit claims McCarrick headed abusive ‘sex ring,’ names alleged ‘procurer’
- New accuser of Theodore McCarrick alleges the ex-cardinal orchestrated abuse involving other clerics
- Former Cardinal McCarrick accused of participating in beach house ‘sex ring,’ lawyers allege
- Bishops Urged To Oppose Former Priest’s Marriage To Rape Survivor
- “Unprecedented” decision to treble compensation paid to Birmingham abuse victims
- Catholic newspaper questions how Nashville Diocese handled sex abuse complaint
- Zero tolerance for clerical sexual abuse of children
- Paedophile priest Vincent Ryan released on parole from Long Bay Prison
- Paedophile priest Vince Ryan to walk free from Long Bay Prison on Tuesday
- Lessons learned: St. Louis archbishop-elect leaves a community still reeling from a bombshell report on clergy sex abuse
- What Ted McCarrick’s ‘social networks’ could teach the Church
- Vatican Tells Bishops to Report Sex Abuse to Police (but Doesn’t Require It)
- Archbishop Morandi: “A manual to explain how to act when abuse is reported”
- Vatican issues guide for investigating priests accused of abuse
- Vatican publishes handbook for bishops and religious superiors to guide response to abuse allegations
- Vatican says bishops should report sex abuse to police
- Vatican pushes for uniform approach in handling clerical abuse
- Opus Dei confirms one of its priests sentenced by Vatican for abuse
- Indiana Archdiocese Sued Over Liability Insurance Response
- Uncle Ted’s Social Network
- News outlets seek to unseal files on Saints owner Tom Benson
- Allegation of clergy sexual abuse cover-up filed against Springfield Bishop Mitchell Rozanski
- Nine new sex abuse suits filed against Newark Archdiocese include cleric not accused before
- Abuse victim of Opus Dei priest wants case to be acknowledged
- WATCH NOW: Father Mark White of Martinsville and his supporters hold vigil in Richmond outside Mass from which he was exclude
- Rancor on Springfield Diocesan Review Board leads to resignations, lapse in faith
- Clergy sex abuse survivors demand Archdiocese of New Orleans audit for PPP money
- Suspended priest who spoke on clergy abuse backed by supporters outside Richmond mass
- U.S. Catholic Church Received Billions in Taxpayer Funds from Paycheck Protection Program
- ‘The whole truth’: Bankruptcy judge urged to unseal records of alleged abusive New Orleans priest
- Diocesan clergy abuse Review Board Chairman John Hale resigns, quits Catholic church following Bishop Weldon report
- Why White House Catholics are concerned about Trump’s Catholic tweets
- Former National Review Board chairman cites ‘mixed progress’ on clergy sex abuse
- New Orleans Clergy Abuse Plaintiff Aims to Move Bankruptcy-halted Case Out of Federal Court
- Suit against Scranton Diocese alleges abuse, cover-up by repeat-offender priest
- Ex-Philly priest pleads guilty to decades-old sex assaults of altar boys
- Polish Church faces reckoning over sex abuse
- Guardian Angels: Safeguarding minors is a mandate, not a choice
- Albany Diocese adds deceased Capital Region priest to list of offenders
- Victim of clergy abuse says Archdiocese tried to keep settlement details secret, against its own rules
- Clergy abuse victim says Archdiocese filed for bankruptcy to keep settlement details secret
- “Clergy sex abuse victims seek dismissal of Archdiocese of New Orleans bankruptcy”
- Attorneys for alleged church sex abuse victims file motion asking court to dismiss Archdiocese of New Orleans bankruptcy case
- Church should empower victims to disclose abuse
- Primate of Poland: Church must rebuild trust amid abuse crisis
- Pope Francis recommends silence before forces of scandal and division
- Honour recognises Royal Commission role and a lifelong fight for the vulnerable
- Two former Diocese of Jefferson City priests dismissed
- ‘How do you say no to a bishop?’: Hart accusers say they survived years of trauma and institutional failures
- Ohio priest indicted on charges of child pornography and juvenile sex trafficking, US attorney says
- Documents reveal church stayed quiet on sexual misconduct allegations against Broome Bishop for almost a year
- ‘I thought God had presented this guy’: 20 years after reporting clergy abuse to the University, a Notre Dame survivor shares his story
- Alleged David Haas sexual assault victim speaks out
- Catholic Archbishop: I’d Rather Go To Jail Than Report a Pedophile Priest Who Confesses His Crimes
- Archives reveal abuse allegations against founder of Schonstatt movement
- Top Vatican investigator on sex abuse says church must empower victims
- New laws to better support victims of child sexual abuse
- Laudato Si’ gets more attention in Church than child protection, expert says
- UISG announces two initiatives during Safeguarding Webinar
- Depok case shines light on sexual abuse in Indonesian Catholic Church
- Polish group seeks pope’s action against sex abuse, cover-up
- France: Disgraced archbishop gives last mass
- Morrison threatens charity status of organisations refusing to join abuse redress scheme
- Convicted priest is defrocked
- WATCH NOW: Vatican hands down its word in case of Father Mark White
- In his own words: Ex-Cardinal’s letters to abuse victims
- Advocate for victims of clergy abuse calls for Springfield Bishop Mitchell Rozanski to resign
- With release of sex abuse report, National Review Board cautions against complacency
- US Catholic bishops: clergy sex abuse claims tripled in 2019
- Annual audit shows more than 4,400 allegations of clergy abuse reported
- Child abuse bill advances
- The Pope has decided. Bishop Edward Janiak removed from directing the Kalisz diocese
- Secularist group in Spain urges anti-Catholic language be added to child protection law
- Marianists release names of members they say abused children
- Springfield Diocese will institute series of reforms after sexual abuse claims against the late Bishop Christopher Weldon deemed credible
- Pennsylvania Priest Sex Abuse Victims Who Sued in New Jersey Facing Jurisdictional Fight
- Abuse allegations against former Springfield Bishop Christopher Weldon ‘unequivocally credible,’ investigation finds
- Vatican Official Reminds Bishops: Diocesan Bankruptcies Could Require Vatican Approval
- Irish laypeople deplore bishops’ financial opacity, clericalism in managing diocesan accounts
- Report on sexual abuse allegations against late Springfield Bishop Christopher Weldon could prove pivotal
- Two years since McCarrick allegations: A CNA timeline
- Analysis: Two years after McCarrick, questions are unanswered
- No Word on McCarrick Report as Second Anniversary of His Removal Passes Quietly
- Cops nab Indonesian church worker for molesting altar boys
- Australia’s senior cleric says report calling for Church governance by lay women will be amended
- Priests, parishes share Viganò’s letter to Trump
- Saints official gave earlier help to New Orleans Archdiocese on sexual abuse crisis
- How Much Did the Saints Help the Catholic Church on Its Sex Abuse Crisis? More Than They Admitted
- French Catholic Church Counts Over 3,000 Child Victims Of Sex Abuse
- Polish bishop lashes out at archbishop for reporting abuse cover-up to Vatican
- Royal Commission into abuse appoints fifth Commissioner
- Abuse scandal linked to status of women in Church
- New leader of German bishops signals no retreat from progressive line
- 52 new suits against Albany Diocese allege sex abuse by priests, nuns
- Australian Bishops urge further consultation on leaked governance report
- Catholic composer David Haas accused of ‘sexual battery’ and ‘spiritual manipulation’
- A Map of L.A.’s Accused Pedophile Priests
- Alleged Theodore McCarrick victim says he is helping fact-check abuse dossier
- Child Victims Act attorneys oppose Buffalo Diocese move to shield parishes from lawsuits
- Nuns kick off new webinar series on fighting sex abuse
- Texas Supreme Court to hear case of former deacon suing diocese for abuse claim
- Abuse inquiry seeking predator priest confessions
- Diocese of Richmond starts review of allegations against 4 inactive priests
- Priest worked in North Jersey parishes for decades after being accused of sex abuse
- ‘They are mistaken’: AG backs sex-abuse law challenged by Diocese of Providence
- Australia’s bishops, religious consider proposals for change in governance
- Leaked report needs ‘due consideration’ say bishops
- Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio Strongly Denies Second Sexual Abuse Claim from 1970s, Contemplates Filing Defamation Lawsuit
- Brooklyn bishop accused by second man of sex abuse
- Australian bishops’ report advocates major changes to church governance
- Catholic Church to be sued by ex school principal who complained about paedophile priest
- Explaining the Vatican’s lingering ambivalence on “zero tolerance”
- My childhood church is being given away for free. What bittersweet memories it holds.
- Polish priests defy bishop amid pedophilia scandal
- ‘Look what he’s taken from me’: the deadly toll of Catholic church sex abuse on Guam
- Former principal who warned of dangerous priest to sue Catholic church
- Australia’s bishops seeking ‘whole-of-Church’ approach for child protection
- Poland is shocked by pedophilia documentary
- NFL team’s deep Catholic ties behind role in abuse crisis
- ‘Vos Estis’ at one year: Some question pope’s process for investigating bishops
- SNAP asks governor to order state investigation of church
- Italy’s most notorious unsolved mystery illustrates Vatican’s trust deficit
- Catholic priest sexual abuse survivor suing Oakland Diocese and East Bay churches
- PETER WILKINSON AND GAIL GROSSMAN FREYNE. Historic Church Governance Report locked down by Australian Bishops
- Historic report withheld – Australian Bishops regress to ‘business as usual’
- LI priest molested me, now church is trying to keep me quiet, lawsuit says
- Secret bishops’ report calls for radical revamp of Catholic Church
- Lawsuit: Man alleges Allentown Diocese priests sexually abused, tortured him in church basement in the 1970s
- Pastoral Letter to the Catholic Community of the Archdiocese of Perth The Most Rev Timothy Costelloe SDB Archbishop of Perth
- Perth archbishop slams confession seal ‘slur’
- New Australian report may help church find its way out of abuse crisis
- St John Paul II honored as Poland sees new abuse allegations
- New documentary highlights abuse cover-up in Poland
- Documentary on priestly paedophilia and cover-ups prompts swift response from Poland’s Catholic church
- Official in John Paul II’s sainthood cause says no cover-up on sex abuse
- Polish clerical child abuse documentary casts shadow on John Paul II centenary
- Polish archbishop refers child abuse negligence case to Vatican
- Australian investigation alleged that Cardinal George Pell knew about abuse within the Catholic church for decades. One of the pedophile priests he allegedly helped protect has been sentenced to more jail time for his crimes.
- More jail time means Gerald Ridsdale is ‘likely to die in custody’
- Paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale sentenced to 10 years’ jail for sexual abuse of boys in 1970s
- Catholic bishop suspends priest and issues trespass order over blog about clergy sex abuse
- Dispute between Father Mark White of Martinsville and Bishop of Richmond Barry Knestout will be decided by a Catholic court
- Priest says losing post won’t make him “shut up” about sexual abuse cover-ups
- DC priest describes a culture of cover-up in wake of McCarrick scandal
- Do we have to take sides over George Pell? Well, actually, ‘no’
- Victorian Government backs release of unredacted Royal Commission findings on child sex abuse
- After 26 years, Eileen Piper has finally won an apology from the Catholic Church for her daughter’s abuse
- A View From the Inside of the Catholic Church’s Abuse Scandal
- Why the ABC’s reporting of the George Pell case wasn’t a witch-hunt
- Analysis: What the Pell case means for Vatican reform
- Joanne McCarthy steps out of the newsroom after a 40-year career as one of Australia’s premier journalists
- New claims of child sexual abuse by Cardinal George Pell exposed in ABC TV’s Revelation
- Survivors refute Scicluna’s statement that “silence and cover-ups” in the Church are now “a thing of the past”.
- No secret that ‘pontifical secrecy’ is taking a beating at pope’s summit
- Walking with ‘suffering Christ’ means standing with victims, says priest
- Top anti-abuse expert says ‘paternalistic’ attitude is worse than clericalism
- Cupich on new Catholic Church abuse protection task force: ‘Regaining trust has to begin with a profound sense of responsibility’
- Leading clergy-abuse expert addresses impact of the crisis on global Catholic Church
- The destructive circle of sexual abuse
- Is Vatican anti-abuse task force ‘Tale of Two Cities’ or ‘Remembrance of Things Past’?
- Vatican task force offers help to church on abuse prevention
- ‘The church we so believed in abandoned us,’ mom of assault victim says at sentencing of Allentown Diocese priest
- Pope urges church workers to fight child abuse, even when facing threats
- Where things stand a year after pope’s historic sexual abuse summit
- Cardinal Gracias: Church must ‘shed prejudice’ against women’s leadership
- Clergy Abuse Survivors Mark Summit Anniversary With Protest at Vatican
- One year after abuse summit, church reviews progress
- Study identifies 16 child sex abuse rings in Victorian Catholic Church
- One year after global abuse summit, reaction mixed on progress made
- Pope says revision of canon law section on crime, penalties is necessary
- Argentine clergy abuse victims in Rome, one year after Vatican summit
- Deaf survivors of clergy sexual abuse protest in Vatican
- One year after Vatican abuse summit, survivors grade Pope Francis with ‘D minus’
- Fr Zollner: Protection of minors improving since last year’s summit
- Abuse survivors seek more progress 1 year after papal summit
- Survivors storm Rome to mark anniversary of global abuse summit
- Deaf Argentine abuse survivors target pope with defiant message
- Survivor advocacy group accuses pope of cherry-picking abuse reforms
- Removal of ‘pontifical secret’ in clerical sex abuse trials a step forward for justice
- Little progress since Vatican’s sexual abuse summit, say activists
- Ethicist hoping workshop in Rome will pave a theological response to abuse crisis
- When it comes to abuse victims, the Body of Christ keeps score
- The Church and bad faith
- Piecemeal Protections The Canadian Church Struggles to Confront Sex Abuse
- Fr. Hans Zollner: Clergy abuse has damaged the church, but ‘more damage has been done to human beings’
- The Pope’s Declaration on Clergy Abuse: A Step in the Right Direction or a Band-aid on A Much Deeper Wound?
- Clericalism cited as root of sex abuse crisis
- Interview of the editorial director, Andrea Tornielli, with Archbishop Charles Scicluna, adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the occasion of the publication of the Rescript of the Holy Father Francis concerning the Instruction on the Confidentiality of Legal Proceedings, 17.12.2019
- Comment by the editorial director, Andrea Tornielli, on the publication of the Rescript of the Holy Father on the Instruction on the Confidentiality of Legal Proceedings, 17.12.2019
- RESCRIPTUM EX AUDIENTIA SS.MI: Rescriptum of the Holy Father Francis to promulgate the Instruction on the confidentiality of legal proceedings, 17.12.2019
- Pope ends a secrecy rule for Catholic sexual abuse cases, but for victims many barriers to justice remain
- What is the pontifical secret?
- Abolishing of pontifical secret in abuse cases ‘ground-breaking’, say canon lawyers
- Archbishop Charles Scicluna hails abolition of pontifical secret in clerical sex crimes
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- The Vatican’s problematic process to address clergy sex abuse cases, explained
- What if the Vatican actually goes broke?
- Sex abuse claims against clergy cannot be ducked by insurers, victims argue
- The Summit on Abuse, Five Years Later
- Belgian Church official warns Vangheluwe case could mar papal visit
- Vatican’s handling of Jesuit priest shows new dimensions of never-ending abuse crisis
- Message from the German Bishops’ Conference on the German Synodal Path following Vatican meeting
- The abuse crisis should be the center of the pope’s ongoing synodal process
- Vatican child protection leader: ‘Building credibility needs a track record’
- Women must be included in formation of priests, says abuse expert
- Why I declined to join my diocesan sex abuse review board
- The Catholic clergy has broken the bank. It’s time for the laity to take control.
- Opinion: Catholics shocked by sexual abuse revelations
- Will demand grow to end celibacy, as Pope signals zero tolerance on abuse?
- Report: Catholic clergy’s unquestioned — and uneducated — power spurs abuse
- Priest: Church needs to emphasize pastoral work with sex abuse survivors
- Archbishop Nienstedt: an example of how the pope’s abuse law is not working
- Francis’ clergy abuse law, ‘Vos Estis,’ isn’t working. Here’s how to fix it.
- The beginning of the fall of the Catholic Church in Ireland
- Business ‘outside the family’: What if Becciu blames Pope Francis?
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- Records show that John Paul II could have intervened in abuse crisis – but didn’t
- Anna Farrow: Church’s ‘Long Lent’ of clerical abuse
- Pope Francis’ ‘Zanchetta problem’
- Abuse survivors say Benedict apology falls short
- Can the Vatican reform pontifical not-so-secrecy?
- The sex abuse scandal is not over. The hierarchal culture still needs transformation.
- 20 years after Boston Globe’s ‘Spotlight,’ we need a national database of accused clergy
- Abuse survivor Phil Saviano said something profound by having a Catholic funeral
- Church’s culture of secrecy breeds authoritarianism and patriarchalism
- French Catholic Church sexual abuse: The devil lives in holy place
- The dark shadow of scandal still lurks four years after the Royal Commission findings
- Exclusive: George Pell returned to Australia ahead of church reforms
- He Blew the Whistle on the Catholic Church in 1985. Why Didn’t We Listen?
- The challenge of sexual abuse: What has happened since the February 2019 Summit
- Tired of the drip, drip, drip of Catholic sexual abuse reports? Let’s try this.
- The Catholic Church in Canada is worth billions, a Globe investigation shows. Why are its reparations for residential schools so small?
- As Cardinal Becciu goes to court, Francis’ financial reforms also on trial
- Grindr Exposé on Anti-LGBTQ Priest Points to Staggering Church Hypocrisy
- Reforming the Vatican’s Code of Canon law, #MeToo Insights, and Zero Tolerance
- New Vatican laws on clergy abuse not enough, says former papal commissioner
- Catholic Church response to sexual abuse must centre on survivor well-being, not defensiveness
- The Catholic Church desperately needs to change, but will it do so?
- Explainer: Cardinal Marx wasn’t accused of sexual abuse or cover-up. So why has he offered to resign?
- Church still incapable of saying there is no excuse for a priest abusing a child
- Pope Francis’ reforms the Church’s disciplinary system in response to royal commission
- Vatican tightens but doesn’t close accountability loopholes
- Examining the Deep Roots of the Abuse Crisis
- ‘Stop suppressing Catholics’, outspoken nun tells Australian church leaders
- It’s time for our Catholic president to address the church’s sexual abuse scandal
- Pope Francis’ process for investigating accused Catholic bishops clearly requires reform
- Can organized religion hold onto its members?
- Parishes cannot obstruct sex abuse investigations
- Editorial: The first case of ‘Vos Estis’ in action, and it’s fallout
- Priest who exposed ‘homoheresy’ speaks out on need to curb ‘homosexual clans’ in Church
- Catholics owe Marty Baron a debt of gratitude. He told us the truth about the clerical sex abuse crisis.
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- Dear your graces and my lord bishops of Australia are you listening? Or like church mice.
- Culture of silence keeps abuse systems in place
- Garry Linnell: The Catholic Church has no right to lecture us on ethics or morality
- AP Article Exposes Catholic Bishops’ Deceitful and Devious Practices
- Conversion bill debate reveals Church’s hypocrisy
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- New book examines clergy sexual abuse — in the wide lens of history
- Anti-Catholicism is real—and it’s turning Catholics against one another
- Analysis: Two years after McCarrick investigation began, report not yet in sight
- Britain’s reckoning with past systemic child abuse is long overdue
- Mystery lingers 2 years after Evansville priest was accused of sexual misconduct
- Painful clergy sex-abuse reminders
- Francis Campbell: There’s no avoiding the pain of victims
- Holy See response to Child Sexual Abuse Royal Commission: another example of clericalist obstinance
- Fr Frank’s Homily – 6 September 2020
- BOOK REVIEW: The Unforeseen Warrior Woman: An Unexpected Story
- Cardinal Dolan Becomes Latest Prelate To Be Duped By The Vatican On The McCarrick Report
- Catholic priest says he was silenced by the church for speaking out on abuse | Opinion
- Is Archbishop Viganò’s Rejection of the Second Vatican Council Promoting Schism?
- MY WORD: The bishop is missing a chance for a lesson of love
- Opinion: Pull back the curtain of secrecy on abuse by priests
- Consumatum est: is the Australian Catholic church finished?
- Explainer: What the church has done to fight clergy sex abuse since 2018’s ‘summer of shame’
- The Australian Catholic Church’s silent treatment
- Endemic secrecy in the Catholic Church
- Editorial: It’s past time for Vatican report on McCarrick’s shameful rise
- Reflections on sixty years as a priest
- Who still stands with Viganò?
- Pope Francis Should Severely Punish Bishops Who Do Not Comply With The Guidance
- Eradicating the McCarrick Virus
- Opinion: Kieran Tapsell responds to release of Vatican “vademecum” or handbook in dealing with clerical abuse allegations.
- ‘Pray for Your Poor Uncle,’ a Predatory Priest Told His Victims
- Does it matter if journalists have quit asking about the missing McCarrick report?
- Disgraced Catholic Priest Francis Trauger Pleads Guilty, SNAP Reacts
- Isolated Pope Francis Faces Yet Another Setback in Pandemic
- Rozanski’s actions in sex abuse case sets path for change in motion (Editorial)
- Analysis: As Archbishop Viganò denounces Vatican II, the Vatican is not speaking
- Justice for victims
- The Orchards of Police and Priests: lessons from clergy abuse scandal
- We need to talk about David Haas
- National Plenary Council Discernment Reports.
- Disinfecting denial and secrecy
- Editorial: For the good of the Church, release the McCarrick report
- In police racism and clergy abuse, hold leaders accountable
- Why, in God’s name, is the Catholic Church getting JobKeeper?
- Who speaks for the Catholic church?
- Review: The continued fight to eradicate clergy sex abuse
- Archbishop Viganò is aligning with Trump to stay in the spotlight. Pay him no attention.
- President Trump tweeted about Archbishop Viganò. So, who is he?
- The Catholic Church’s Biggest Crisis Since the Reformation Why a New Wave of Sexual Abuse Revelations Has Deepened Preexisting Divisions
- MY WORD: How are you justified, Bishop Knestout?
- FRANCIS SULLIVAN The Light From the Southern Cross. A Report on Catholic Church Governance
- Why would a Catholic school seek to deny justice for victims of sexual abuse?
- A promising roadmap for ecclesial reform and conversion
- Hmmm … the Independent Advisory Group’s Governance report
- May the Global Church Discover ‘Light from the Southern Cross’
- The Gift of John Paul II
- Silence in the Catholic church may be its weapon of self destruction
- Category: Podcast
- Reaction To The Changes In The Catholic Church’s Penal Code
- Podcast: Inside the top secret process of appointing a Catholic bishop
- Dr Tom Doyle: Church structure to blame for abuse
- QAnon Conspiracy or The REAL Catholic Church?
- Podcast: Abuse survivor Juan Carlos Cruz responds to the McCarrick Report
- Will the McCarrick Report lead to justice for survivors of clerical abuse? | Behind the Story
- Podcast: The McCarrick report set a precedent. Other survivors want their reports published, too.
- Video: Facebook Live on the McCarrick report
- Podcast: The Rise and Fall of Theodore McCarrick
- Father Doyle: Uncovering Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
- Category: Pontifical Secret
- Category: Pope Francis
- Category: Popes
- Category: Research
- Category: Revelation
- ‘We wanted to do something that no-one had ever done before’
- Two new accusers say George Pell abused them when they were boys in the 1970s
- Convicted paedophile Bernard McGrath abused dozens of children. The Catholic Church failed to report his offending
- Catholic Priest Who Abused 30+ Kids Says He Should Retain Priesthood
- ‘Learn. Protect your children from clergy.’ The ABC’s Revelation reveals a tragic story
- Convicted paedophile Vincent Ryan confessed to a priest — then he continued abusing children
- Newcastle Herald editorial, March 16, 2020: It’s time to challenge the Catholic Church over whether it’s really changed
- Hunter child sex survivor’s challenge to Catholics, and Australians, in first episode of ABC’s Revelation
- “Beyond the pale….”
- Any wiser? Sarah Ferguson’s macabre journey into the mind of a paedophile
- 2GB Podcast 05 MAR 2020 Ben Fordham Sarah Ferguson discuss Revelation ABC TV
- ABC journalist Sarah Ferguson on making Revelation and coming face to face with two of the Catholic church’s worst serial paedophiles
- Inside Sarah Ferguson’s new show ‘Revelation’, as she comes face to face with convicted paedophiles
- Category: Richard Sipe
- Category: Solicitation
- Category: The Altar Boys
- Father Glen Walsh paid a heavy price
- Whistle-blower priest told neighbour that Vatican told him to be a hostile witness
- ‘The Altar Boys’ launches amid renewed calls for answers
- Recording: Truth-telling with Suzanne Smith and David Marr
- The Altar Boys: new questions about suicides of clergy abuse survivors should spark another inquiry
- Vatican told whistleblower priest to be a hostile witness: friend
- What are you planning to say?’ Pope quizzed whistleblower priest, book claims
- Category: The Opperman Report
- Category: Vatican
- Category: Victorian Parliament Inquiry
- Category: Vigano
- Category: YouTube
- Savio Rodrigues exposes sexual abuse cases and corruption in the Catholic Church of India on Jaipur Dialogues
- Father Mark White continues fight with Richmond Diocese
- Peter Isely (Part 2): How and why the Catholic Church covered up decades of abuse by priests
- Peter Isely (Part 1): How and why the Catholic Church covered up decades of abuse by priests
- Playing Hide and Seek (2020)- Documentary Film of the Sekielski Brothers
- George Brandis Secret Meeting With George Pell
- Please release the FULL Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Report