Tag: clergy sex abuse

The pope said that “the culture of death” leads to sexual abuse, the abuse of conscience, and the abuse of power

Church leaders are still striving to prevent shame and embarrassment by hiding away the abusers and the records of crimes against children

The Vatican cannot be sued in local courts for the actions of clerical abusers because it has sovereign immunity

Father Cullen says that victims of clerical child abuse in the Philippines are paid off or intimidated not to file or pursue charges

An independent commission revealed that French Catholic clergy sexually abused around 216,000 minors over seven decades since 1950

The Catholic Church has been rocked by a long series of sexual scandals in Poland, a devout EU country where it wields political influence

The German bishop assured the pope that “rumors” that the German Church was seeking to diverge from the worldwide Church were untrue

The letter accused the Vatican of using international agreements to avoid accepting responsibility for abuse committed by Church members

Cardinal Marx offered to resign, saying he had to share institutional responsibility for sexual abuse by clerics over past decades

The revision aims to “reduce the number of cases in which the imposition of a penalty was left to the discretion of authorities”