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Secularist group in Spain urges anti-Catholic language be added to child protection law

Spain Child Protection Law Title: Secularist group in Spain urges anti-Catholic language be added to child protection law Author: Inés San Martín Publisher: Crux Date: 24JUN2020 ROSARIO, Argentina – A Spanish association that advocates for a secular Europe is calling for proposed legislation on the protection of children to specifically target the Catholic Church, claiming that it

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Explaining the Vatican’s lingering ambivalence on “zero tolerance”

Vatican Zero Tolerance Ambivalence Title: Explaining the Vatican’s lingering ambivalence on “zero tolerance” Author: John L Allen Jr. Publisher: Crux Date: 31MAY2020 Anne Barrett Doyle, co-founder of the online research database BishopAccountability.org, holds a picture of Buenos Aires Archbishop Mario Poli, right, next to Peter Isely, member of the organization called Ending Clergy Abuse, holding a

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Australia’s bishops seeking ‘whole-of-Church’ approach for child protection

Archbishop Mark Child Protection Title: Australia’s bishops seeking ‘whole-of-Church’ approach for child protection Author: Christopher White Publisher: Crux Date: 28MAY2020 Plans are moving forward for the establishment of a national system for child protection within the Australian Catholic Church, according to a report following the meeting of the country’s Catholic bishops earlier this month. The

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Italy’s most notorious unsolved mystery illustrates Vatican’s trust deficit

Orlandi Vatican Trust Deficit Title: Italy’s most notorious unsolved mystery illustrates Vatican’s trust deficit Author: John L. Allen Jr. Publisher: Crux Date: 27MAY2020 ROME – Pietro Orlandi, the older brother of Emanuela Orlandi, whose still-unexplained disappearance at the age of 15 in 1983 has become the country’s most infamous unsolved mystery, is a bit like

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Top anti-abuse expert says ‘paternalistic’ attitude is worse than clericalism

Zollner Paternalistic Attitude Clericalism Title: Top anti-abuse expert says ‘paternalistic’ attitude is worse than clericalism Author: Elise Ann Allen   Publisher: Crux  Date: 13 MAR 2020 ROME – German Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, one of the Catholic Church’s leading experts in child protection, has said that more dangerous than clericalism in the clerical abuse crisis

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Pope urges church workers to fight child abuse, even when facing threats

Pope Fight Abuse Mexico Title: Pope urges church workers to fight child abuse, even when facing threats Author: Ines San Martin Publication: Crux Now Date: 25Feb2020 ROME – In a video message sent to an abuse prevention formation center in Mexico, Pope Francis condemned the fact there are people willing to hire a hit man

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