sex abuse crisis
How Willow Creek exposed our sins
By Kyle Strobel — September 7, 2018
(RNS) — We must see the recent fall of pastors as an opportunity to have a new conversation about power in the American evangelical church.
Australian probe into child abuse attacks Catholic celibacy
By Rod McGuirk — December 15, 2017
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian inquiry into child abuse recommended that the Catholic Church lift its demand of celibacy from clergy and that priests be prosecuted for failing to report evidence of pedophilia heard in the confessional.
Vatican Cardinal Pell faces Australian court on sex charges
By The Associated Press — July 26, 2017
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Cardinal George Pell, Australia's highest-ranking Catholic and Pope Francis' top financial adviser, is the most senior Vatican official ever charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis.
Sex abuse survivors slam Pope Francis’ picks for crisis panels
By Josephine McKenna — September 10, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The appointment of both Robert Geisinger and Robert Oliver was slammed by the survivors' network SNAP, which claimed both had failed to do enough to stop abuse while they were in the U.S.
Vatican: Former diplomat who abused children could face extradition
By David Gibson — August 25, 2014
(RNS) It's not clear whether Jozef Wesolowski
, who has been defrocked and stripped of his diplomatic immunity, could be sent the Dominican Republic, where he preyed on young boys.
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