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by bcadmin | Oct 3, 2022 | Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Clerical Abuse, News, Pope Francis, The Dispatch, Vos Estis Lux Mundi | 0 |
Vos estis lux mundi, the Church’s process for handling allegations of abuse or negligent handling of abuse by bishops, has completed its three-year trial period. It is now ostensibly under review by the Vatican. Shall […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 31, 2022 | Americas, Archdiocese of Medellin, Catholic news, clergy abuse, Clerical Abuse, Colombia, News, News Briefs | 0 |
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Lima, Peru, Aug 31, 2022 / 08:00 am (CNA).
The Archdiocese of Medellín, Colombia, has published the list of complaints of sexual abuse by priests it has received in the last 30 years as well as the acti…
by bcadmin | Jul 24, 2022 | Canada, Clerical Abuse, Italy, lead, Matteo Salvini, News, News Analysis, Opus Dei, papal apology, Pope John Paul II | 0 |
The capacity to apologize is almost a defining feature of the modern papacy. In the old days, being pope meant never having to say you were sorry – popes never admitted error, and they certainly never acknowledged fault.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 24, 2022 | Canada, Clerical Abuse, Indigenous peoples, News, Pope in Canada | 0 |
A member of the Cree-Metis people on his father’s side while his mother was Italian, Father Cristino Bouvette is National Liturgical Coordinator of the pope’s Canada visit, and its motto could be his too – “Walking together”.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 23, 2022 | Abuse prevention, Cei, Church in Europe, Church in Italy, Clerical Abuse, Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA), Italian bishops, Italy, lead, News, rete l'Abuso | 0 |
A collective of abuse survivors and advocacy groups have published an open letter to the Italian bishops as they meet to elect new leadership, calling for an independent national inquiry into clerical abuse.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 4, 2022 | Argentina, Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, Church in the Americas, Clerical Abuse, lead, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
Argentinian Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta was found guilty by an Argentinian court and sentenced to 4 years and six months of effective imprisonment for aggravated continuous sexual abuse of two former seminarians.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 8, 2022 | Archdiocese of Cologne, audit, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, Church in Europe, Clerical Abuse, Congregation for Bishops, Germany, lead, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
Earlier this week the troubled German Archdiocese of Cologne announced that the Vatican has agreed to conduct an external audit into its contracts once the archbishop of the diocese returns from a papal-mandated sabbatical.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 12, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic news, Clerical Abuse, Europe, Free Access, News, Portugal | 0 |
Fatima, Portugal, Nov 12, 2021 / 03:30 am Portugal’s Catholic bishops said on Thursday that they have approved the creation of an independent commission to investigate clerical sexual abuse. The bishops announced the decision on Nov. 11 at the end of their plenary assembly at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima. Acknowledging the work of diocesan
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 20, 2021 | Clerical Abuse, confession, Features, France, News, Opinion, sex abuse | 0 |
Alfred Hitchock’s 1953 I Confess! Is one of the master’s lesser-known noir efforts. It tells the story of a Quebecois parish priest who is framed for murder. The film is signature Hitchcock in style, but […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 19, 2021 | Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Bishop Andrew Cozzens, Bishop Appointment, Bishop Michael Hoeppner, Church in the US, Clerical Abuse, Diocese of Crookston, lead, News | 0 |
When Bishop Andrew Cozzens took the podium at his introductory press conference in the Diocese of Crookston Oct. 18, he was quick to acknowledge the dioceses checkered past of clerical sex abuse, and stated clearly his intentions to help it heal.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 18, 2021 | accountability, Catholic news, child sex abuse, Clerical Abuse, Diocese of Buffalo, News, The Dispatch, US | 0 |
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Buffalo, N.Y., Aug 18, 2021 / 11:03 am (CNA).
At Saturday’s close of the “lookback” window created by New York’s Child Victims Act, more than 900 child sex abuse claims against the Buffa….
by bcadmin | Jul 20, 2021 | Archbishop Jose Gomez, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Clerical Abuse, News, USCCB | 0 |
Msgr. Jeffrey D. Burrill, the general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops since November, has resigned from the post after the USCCB “became aware of impending media reports alleging possible improper behavior by Msgr. Burrill,” said Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, USCCB president.
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