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by bcadmin | Sep 15, 2022 | Abuse survivors, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
A group representing survivors of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in New Zealand has called on Pope Francis to intervene, claiming authorities are mishandling it and retraumatising victims. In a letter sent to the Vatican and seen by Reuters, the New Zealand chapter of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), accused church
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 23, 2022 | abuse payouts, Abuse survivors, Associated Press, clerical sexual abuse, Father Marcial Maciel, lead, Legion of Christ, Legionaries of Christ, News, Vatican | 0 |
Three of Father Marcial Maciel’s victims are still seeking reparations from the Legion to compensate for the abuse they suffered and the “moral” harm done to their reputations by the order.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 9, 2022 | Abuse survivors, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, clerical sexual abuse, lead, Marie Collins, Munich, News, SNAP, Vatican | 0 |
Abuse survivors have said retired Pope Benedict XVI’s apology Tuesday for his failures in handling the abuse crisis, while refusing to admit personal wrongdoing, is disappointing and serves as proof that the Church has not learned its lesson.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 8, 2022 | Abuse survivors, Benedict XVI, Bishops, Catholic Church (Germany), clerical sexual abuse, lead, Munich, News, News Analysis | 0 |
Benedict is hardly just another bishop, and perhaps different rules apply.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 5, 2022 | Abuse prevention, Abuse survivors, Catholic News Service, Consecrated Life, Global church, News, Pope Francis, Religious orders, Vos Estis Lux Mundi | 0 |
Members of religious orders and other consecrated men and women take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience in the desire to live the Gospel in a more radical way.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 15, 2021 | Abuse survivors, Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, Catholic News Service, News, Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, Vatican, Vos Estis Lux Mundi | 0 |
The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors hosted a three-day seminar looking at the rights in church trials of those alleging they suffered sexual abuse as children.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 5, 2021 | Abuse survivors, Archdiocese of Boston, Associated Press, Church in the US, News, Spotlight, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, The Boston Globe | 0 |
Phil Saviano was a clergy sex abuse survivor whose courage to go public and resolve to hold abusers and their enablers accountable inspired and strengthened survivors from around the world, his brother said at his funeral Mass on Friday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 29, 2021 | Abuse survivors, Archdiocese of Boston, Associated Press, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, lead, News, Obituary, Spotlight, The Boston Globe | 0 |
Phil Saviano, a clergy sex abuse survivor and whistleblower who played a pivotal role in exposing decades of predatory assaults by Catholic priests in the United States, has died. He was 69.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 24, 2021 | Abuse survivors, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, clerical sexual abuse, Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, News | 0 |
Teresa Pitt Green, who as a child was sexually abused by Catholic priests, said she is convinced “there’s a lot more hope than people dare to feel.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 19, 2020 | Abuse survivors, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, clerical sexual abuse, German bishops, German Church, Germany, Munich, News | 0 |
The two abuse survivors who resigned as spokesmen of the victims’ advisory board in the Cologne Archdiocese have accused Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki of a “renewed abuse of abuse victims.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 12, 2020 | Abuse survivors, lead, McCarrick report, News, Pope Francis, Theodore McCarrick, Vatican | 0 |
As the dust begins to settle on the report on the rise to power of defrocked ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, survivors are lauded by many as the impetus of the 460-page Vatican document. Had victim’s not come forward, one of the Church’s most notorious predators might still be in the Vatican’s most exclusive club.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 17, 2020 | abuse crisis, Abuse survivors, Church Reform, clerical abuse crisis, News, safeguarding, transparency, United States, Vatican, Vos Estis Lux Mundi, vulnerable adults, World News | 0 |
Irregularities call into question not only the commitment of Church leadership to safeguarding of vulnerable adults, but the efficacy of safeguarding, reporting, and investigative procedures currently in place.
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