Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of 65-year-old Auxiliary Bishop Joseph R. Binzer of Cincinnati, less than nine months after it was revealed he had failed to inform the archbishop and priest personnel board of ...
The Catholic Church has become Germany's first institution to agree to fixed and binding rules for investigating sexual abuse cases. The agreement, described as historic by the German government's abuse commissioner, could become a blueprint ...
In his latest column for Our Sunday Visitor, Monsignor Owen Campion looks at the case of Cardinal George Pell, whose abuse conviction was recently overturned by Australia’s High Court. Monsignor Campion writes that “all the ...
Cardinal George Pell, whose conviction on five counts of sexual abuse was overturned by Australia's highest court, said in in his first television interview his knowledge that he was innocent and the prayers of thousands ...
Cardinal George Pell has been released from prison after 405 days behind bars after the seven judges of the High Court of Australia unanimously overturned the original December 2018 jury verdict that found him guilty ...
Calling the abuse of children a "spiritual felony," Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory offered prayers April 3 for victims of such abuse and prayed that God would "help us respect the dignity of all the ...
Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, one of the world's leading experts on safeguarding minors, said the church is suffering "institutional trauma" from clerical sexual abuse, trauma that it must learn to integrate into its theology and ...
After receiving a request from Mexico's bishops for assistance in handling cases of the abuse of minors, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is sending its top abuse investigator to Mexico. Archbishop ...
Pope Francis has set up a task force of qualified experts and canon lawyers to help bishops' conferences and congregations of men and women religious with drawing up or revising guidelines for the protection of ...
The culture has gone haywire when it comes to sex and sexuality, in the process utterly discarding not only customs valued for millennia, but the once, and not that long ago, moral traditions of Western ...
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