Key member of pope’s sex abuse commission quits
The most influential member of a Vatican commission on tackling clerical sex abuse has quit, its leader said Wednesday, in the latest blow to a papal advisory body dogged by controversy.
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The reckoning: child sex abuse in the Catholic Church
Portugal on Monday will become the latest country to issue an independent report into clerical sexual abuse, an issue that has dogged the Catholic Church for years and undermined its moral authority.
Portugal Catholic clergy sexually abused nearly 5,000 minors: inquiry
Catholic clergy in Portugal have abused nearly 5,000 children since 1950, an independent commission said on Monday after hearing hundreds of victims’ accounts.
Pope pledges ‘zero tolerance’ for sexual assault
The Catholic Church must show “zero tolerance” to sexual assault by members of the clergy, Pope Francis said in excerpts of an interview with a Portuguese television channel broadcast Sunday.
Pope prays for nuns ‘reduced to servitude’
Pope Francis called on religious sisters Tuesday to “fight” when treated unfairly, acknowledging that some are “reduced to servitude” working for Catholic clergy.
French Catholic Church to settle sex abuse claims with asset sales
French Catholic bishops agreed Monday to sell part of the Church’s
extensive real estate holdings to compensate the thousands of victims
of child sex abuse at the hands of clergy.
‘No desire for truth’ in Spain church over child sex abuse
Unlike in other countries where child sex scandals have forced the Catholic Church towards accountability, the Spanish church has avoided investigating alleged abuses by its clergy to the fury of victims.
Awful truth: Child sex abuse in the Catholic Church
The Catholic Church has been repeatedly rocked by child sex abuse scandals over the last three decades.
Pope opens C.Europe conference on sex abuse ‘crisis’
Pope Francis on Sunday opened a Vatican conference on child sex abuse by the clergy in Central and Eastern Europe by urging participants to brainstorm “concrete pathways of reform”.
Pope promotes priest who denounced paedophilia in Chile’s clergy
Pope Francis on Wednesday announced a promotion for a Chilean priest who was one of the first to denounce child sex abuse in the clergy in his country.
