Tag: clergy sex abuse

The pope emeritus “is carefully reading the statements … which fill him with shame and pain about the suffering inflicted on the victims”

The women “stand in complete solidarity with the victim/survivor nun who broke the silence against continuous abuse and exploitation"

Pope Francis underlined that discernment is always needed “in the fight against abuses of all kinds”

Support and sympathy for a Catholic nun continue to pour in a week after a court in Kerala in India dismissed her case against a bishop

Germany's Catholic Church has been rocked by a string of reports in recent years that have exposed widespread abuse of children by clergymen

The indifference of Church leaders, failure to reach out to the victims, the lack of transparency and lack of accountability is painful

The women said they are “pained to see how insensitively a daughter of the Church is disowned, discredited, and devalued"

The victim alleged that the bishop had subjected her to sexual abuse at least 13 times between 2014 and 2016

Unless women are given greater positions of authority to serve and protect children, the abuse will never end

The bishops knelt in an act of penance in Lourdes where an image of a weeping child was unveiled and an abuse survivor shared a testimony