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Child Sexual Abuse

MacKillop banished after uncovering sex abuse

Mary MacKillop Clergy Abuse Title: MacKillop banished after uncovering sex abuse Author: ABC Staff Publisher: ABC News Date: 24SEP2010 Updated: 07OCT2010 Mary MacKillop, the nun who will soon be Australia’s first Catholic saint, was excommunicated by the church because she discovered children were being abused by a priest and went public, the ABC’s Compass program

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First Part of Chapter II Draft Ordained by a Predator

Predator Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Title: First Part of Chapter II Draft Ordained by a Predator, Chapter II, “What I Think Happened with McCarrick” Author: Father Mark White Publisher: Father Mark White Blog Date: 21SEP2020 Pope John Paul II rode up Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C., standing in the back of an open car, smiling at

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Polish bishop let priest accused of sex abuse keep teaching children – Vatican orders investigation

Vatican Investigates Polish Bishop Title: Polish bishop let priest accused of sex abuse keep teaching children – Vatican orders investigation Author: Juliette Bretan Publisher: Notes From Poland Date: 13SEP2020 A priest being investigated for alleged child sex abuse was allowed to continue working, including teaching children in a public school, for eight years after the

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Ex-archbishop in Chile dies before facing trial for sex abuse

Francisco Jose Cox Huneeus Dies Title: Ex-archbishop in Chile dies before facing trial for sex abuse Author: Ines San Martin Publisher: Crux Date: 14AUG2020 Francisco Jose Cox Huneeus, died age 87 in Chile, on Aug. 12, 2020. He died two years after being defrocked by Pope Francis. He faced several allegations of sexually abusing minors.

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Polish Church faces reckoning over sex abuse

Polish Church Abuse Reckoning Title: Polish Church faces reckoning over sex abuse Author: Anna Maria Jakubek                  {Agence-France Press (AFP)} Publisher:  Yahoo News via AFP Date: 08JUL2020 Jakub Pankowiak’s story of sexual abuse by a priest is part of a documentary called “Hide and Seek”. Jakub Pankowiak’s story of

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Top Vatican investigator on sex abuse says church must empower victims

Archbishop Scicluna Clergy Abuse Title: Top Vatican investigator on sex abuse says church must empower victims Author: Claire Giangrave Publisher: Religion News Service Date: 02JUL2020 VATICAN CITY (RNS) — It’s been more than a year since Pope Francis issued his historic document, “Vos Est Lux Mundi (You are the light of the world),” and ushered in

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Polish group seeks pope’s action against sex abuse, cover-up

Polish Plea Pope Francis Title: Polish group seeks pope’s action against sex abuse, cover-up Author: Nicole Winfield AP correspondent Monika Scislowska contributed from Warsaw, Poland. Publisher: Insider via Associated Press Date: 29JUN2020 ROME (AP) — The Vatican says Pope Francis has been informed about an appeal launched by a group of Catholics in Poland urging intervention

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Canon Law

1962 document orders secrecy in sex cases. Many bishops unaware obscure missive was in their archives

1962 document orders secrecy Title: 1962 document orders secrecy in sex cases. Many bishops unaware obscure missive was in their archives Author: John L. Allen Jr. Publication: National Catholic Reporter NCRonline.org Date: 07AUG2003 A 1962 Vatican document ordering secrecy in cases of sexual misconduct by priests is not, according to canon lawyers, a “smoking gun”

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