Vatican Sexual Abuse

• Brothers sexually abused by Catholic priest in U.S. file lawsuit against Vatican

  The lawsuit attempts to trace a direct line from clergy sex abuse victims to the Vatican, through Minnesota church officials.

  World

  May 14, 2019
  
• Pope Francis defends retaining French cardinal convicted of covering up sex abuse

  Pope Francis defended his decision to reject the resignation of Philippe Barbarin, the French Roman Catholic cardinal convicted on charges of failing to report sexual abuse.

  Crime

  Mar 31, 2019
  
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• Ex-Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell gets 6 years in jail for sexually abusing choir boys

  Pell, 77, is the highest ranking Catholic priest worldwide to be convicted for child sex offenses.

  Crime

  Mar 12, 2019
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• Analysis: What Vatican’s sex abuse prevention summit got right — and what it missed

  No sweeping new law was announced to punish bishops who cover up abuse. No files were released or global reporting requirement endorsed requiring priestly rapists to be reported to police.

  World

  Feb 25, 2019
• Pope Francis defrocks former U.S. cardinal over sexual abuse crimes

  Defrocking means McCarrick, 88, who now lives in a friary in Kansas after he lost his title of cardinal last year, won’t be allowed to celebrate Mass or other sacraments.

  World

  Feb 16, 2019
• Fugitive New Mexico priest awaits trial behind bars for sexual abuse allegations

  "He is known to manipulate and gain the trust of people," federal Prosecutor Sean Sullivan told U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Molzen. "Honestly, a jail setting is the best setting for the defendant to be."

  Crime

  Sep 25, 2018
• The Vatican ‘owes God an apology,’ activist says in letter to Pope Francis

  Newfoundland and Labrador was the site of two highly publicized abuse scandals in the late 1980s, when allegations of widespread abuse at Mount Cashel and Belvedere Catholic orphanages met with public shock and outrage.

  Canada

  Sep 23, 2018
• Pope Francis expels Chilean priest under investigation for sexual abuse of children

  The well-known Chilean religious leader has since been accused of sexual abuse as part of the investigation into allegations against members of the Marist Brothers religious community.

  World

  Sep 15, 2018
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• As nuns come forward with sexual abuse allegations, Catholic Church faces its own #MeToo moment

  “It opened a great wound inside of me,” one nun told the Associated Press. “I pretended it didn’t happen.”

  World

  Jul 28, 2018