Credit to Author: CATHERINE A. MODESTO| Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 03:45:50 +0000
MANILA Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle has admitted that bishops have wounded victims sex abuse by going as far as “covering up scandals” of erring clergy. Tagle also acknowledged the…READ
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 10:02:44 +0000
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis warned church leaders summoned Thursday to a landmark sex abuse prevention summit that the Catholic faithful are demanding more than just condemnation of the crimes of priests but concrete action to respond to the scandal.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 08:59:38 +0000
Pope Francis warned bishops and religious superiors summoned Thursday that the Catholic faithful are demanding more than just condemnation of the crimes.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dennis Maliwanag| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 22:12:53 +0000
Survivors of clergy sex abuse on Wednesday demanded transparency, zero tolerance for abuse and accountability for religious superiors who cover up for rapists, setting a confrontational tone on the eve of Pope Francis’ high-stakes abuse prevention summit.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:13:36 +0000
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis says that those who are constantly attacking the church are linked to the devil.
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Read moreCredit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 09:04:13 +0000
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is summoning church leaders from around the world this week for a tutorial on how to deal with cases of sex abuse by clergy.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 04:49:33 +0000
Denise Buchanan was 17 when she was raped by a seminarian who continued to abuse her when he became a priest in her native Jamaica. The Catholic Church, she says, has offered her nothing but their “prayers.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 23:48:12 +0000
Pope Francis is asking for prayers for this week’s sex abuse summit at the Vatican, calling abuse an “urgent challenge of our time.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: cbibe| Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 04:31:48 +0000
Pope Francis gathers bishops from around the world at the Vatican this week for a summit on child sex abuse scandals assailing the Church.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 03:10:36 +0000
As the Vatican prepares to host a global child abuse summit on the protection of minors, victims’ associations are calling for concrete steps from the Catholic Church to end paedophilia.
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