Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of child sexual abuse offenses, has lodged an application with Australia's High Court to appeal his guilty verdict.
The Catholic Church in the United States has spent a staggering amount of money -- close to $4 billion in the past 20 years -- to investigate, adjudicate and prevent clergy sex abuse, and to ...
Bishop Michael Hoeppner of Crookston, Minnesota, appears to be the first Catholic bishop anywhere to be the subject of the kind of canonical investigation called for in Vos estis lux mundi, the motu proprio Pope ...
In the wake of nearly 50 lawsuits filed against it since New York's Child Victims Act took effect Aug. 14, the Diocese of Rochester filed for reorganization Sept. 12, under Chapter 11 of the U.S. ...
Bishops ‘above all’ have the responsibility to help the Church move forward from the clergy abuse crisis.
Catholics today are utterly fed up with unaccountable bishops. One way to create accountability and heal the Body of Christ is recovering real synods, not in Rome but in every diocese, which would function not ...
Bishop Richard J. Malone of Buffalo said in an audio recording that he feared having to resign over his handling of a sexual harassment accusation by a seminarian against a diocesan priest.
Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop of Washington who was laicized last February following a Vatican trial on sexual abuse charges leveled against him, continued to deny he had abused anyone in an August ...
BURLINGTON, Vt. (CNS) — Bishop Christopher J. Coyne of Burlington Aug. 22 released the names of 40 priests who served in Vermont and were credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor or vulnerable individual since ...
In response to the sex abuse crisis, the Boston province, which encompasses the dioceses of four New England states, has rolled out a third-party, independent system for reporting misconduct and sexual abuse by bishops. The ...
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