Portuguese bishop says conscience clear about abuse claims
A senior Portuguese Catholic Church official who has been named in investigations involving alleged cover-ups of sex abuse by priests said Wednesday his conscience is clear.
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by bcadmin | Oct 12, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, News, Portugal | 0 |
A senior Portuguese Catholic Church official who has been named in investigations involving alleged cover-ups of sex abuse by priests said Wednesday his conscience is clear.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 12, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, News, Portugal | 0 |
Portugal’s president is scrambling to quell an outcry over his comments appearing to make light of revelations that more than 400 people were victims of child sex abuse by members of the Portuguese Catholic Church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, News, Portugal | 0 |
The head of a lay committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said Tuesday the problem in the past had been “widespread” and on some occasions reached “truly endemic” proportions.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 3, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, East Timor, lead, News, Nobel Peace Prize, Portugal | 0 |
LISBON, Portugal — Clergy sexual abuse cases are casting a pall over the Catholic Church in Portugal, ensnaring senior officials even as authorities scramble to explain why shelter was given to a Nobel Peace Prize-winning bishop at the center of sexual misconduct allegations. Senior Catholic leaders apologized over the weekend […]
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Much has changed in the world since the seminal World Youth Day 1993 event in Denver put the event firmly on the map among North American Catholics.
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Much has changed in the world since the seminal World Youth Day 1993 event in Denver put the event firmly on the map among North American Catholics.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 19, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, News, Portugal | 0 |
An independent commission investigating sexual abuse in Portugal’s Catholic Church urged more victims to submit testimonies, especially during summer home visits by citizens living abroad.
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Rare documentation of the Portuguese Inquisition with detailed information about the sentencing trials which took place 500 years ago have been digitized for the first time.
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Before the Portuguese police officer told me I couldn’t walk across the border into Spain, the only other time I had been stopped from crossing a border was when I tried to go from northern […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 10, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, euthanasia, News, Physician-assisted suicide, Portugal | 0 |
Portugal’s parliament voted for the third time in just over a year Thursday in favor of allowing euthanasia, though like the previous two attempts, the country’s Constitutional Court or president could lawmakers’ support from becoming law.
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Many Catholics devoted to Mary and the rosary know the importance of May 13. It’s the anniversary of the Blessed Mother’s appearance to three children in Fatima, Portugal, in 2017.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 12, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, News, Portugal | 0 |
The president of the Portuguese bishops’ conference begged forgiveness from victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, as a church-appointed independent commission predicted many more abuse cases would come to light.
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