Catholic abuse
Retired Catholic bishop charged with sexual offenses in northwest Australia
By Rod Mcguirk — February 22, 2024
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A Vatican investigation into child sexual abuse allegations against Saunders began in 2022.
Vatican considers child sexual abuse allegations against a former Australian bishop
By Rod Mcguirk — September 19, 2023
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The church investigation into Christopher Saunders began last year after the police investigation ended, said Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
French church abuse victims get reparations, and recognition
By Sylvie Corbet — March 10, 2023
PARIS (AP) — France’s Catholic bishops’ conference agreed to provide reparations after a 2021 report estimated some 330,000 children were sexually abused over 70 years by priests or other church-related figures in France.
Polish TV report: John Paul II knew of abuse as archbishop
By Monika Scislowska — March 7, 2023
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Pope St. John Paul II knew about sexual abuse of children by priests under his authority and sought to conceal it when he was an archbishop in his native Poland, according to a television news report.
Retired Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland dies at age 95
By Associated Press — August 23, 2022
(AP) – The liberal archbishop, who pushed for social justice and spoke openly about his struggles with being gay, has died at age 95, according to the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.
Catholic orphanage’s ex-residents ask church to fund therapy
By Wilson Ring — September 17, 2021
Former residents continue to recover from what they described as abuse at the hands of the nuns and priests.
One year after Vatican abuse summit, survivors grade Pope Francis with ‘D minus’
By Claire Giangravé — February 20, 2020
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — One year after Pope Francis called for a summit of Catholic bishops at the Vatican, abuse survivors flocked to the Eternal City on Thursday to report a lack of progress and accountability in the fight against clergy sex abuse.
Catholic leaders in Texas name 286 accused of abusing minors
By David Warren — February 1, 2019
(AP) — The number represents one of the largest collections of names to be released since an explosive grand jury report last year in Pennsylvania.
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