pedophilia
Bolivia’s Catholic Church acknowledges being ‘deaf’ to sex abuse victims
By Associated Press — May 26, 2023
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — The statement comes amid the fallout from the case involving a late Spanish Jesuit priest, Alfonso Pedrajas.
Bolivian Catholic priest accused of abusing seminary students
By Associated Press — May 22, 2023
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Milton Murillo, a Catholic parish priest in the southern region of Tarija, was sent to pre-trial detention for three months.
Pope Francis attempts to tackle sexual abuse globally and in his own backyard
By Claire Giangravé — November 5, 2020
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — This ongoing clergy sex abuse trial at the Vatican will be a litmus test for the efficacy of Pope Francis’ reforms.
Embattled megachurch pastor John Ortberg resigns from Menlo Church
By Bob Smietana — July 29, 2020
(RNS) — The resignation comes after revelations that Ortberg allowed a volunteer who had admitted being attracted to children to continue working with kids at the church and in the community.
Pope Francis defrocks Italian priest convicted of child sex abuse
By Josephine McKenna — June 28, 2017
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Mauro Inzoli was found guilty last year by an Italian court of eight counts of sexual abuse of children aged 12 to 16.
Richard Dawkins under fire for ‘mild pedophilia’ remarks
By Trevor Grundy — September 9, 2013
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Richard Dawkins says other children in his school peer group had been molested by the same teacher but concluded: "I don’t think he did any of us lasting harm."
Prominent Catholic priest, Rev. Benedict Groeschel, says first-time sex abusers shouldn’t be jailed
By Daniel Burke — August 29, 2012
The Rev. Benedict Groeschel, a Franciscan friar from New York who appears often on EWTN, a conservative Catholic TV channel, said that priests who abuse children "on their first offense" should not go to jail.
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