They have been dealing with the fallout associated with the release of Pennsylvania jury report last summer detailing hundreds of allegations of abuse over period and the defrocking of one of their own earlier this year Theodore McCarrick, former cardinal and retired archbishop of Washington, in the wake of..…
By their superiors to church authorities, Pope Francis issued Thursday requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-up, in important new effort to hold Catholic hierarchy accountable for failing to protect their flocks ... ..…
Victim advocates said Thursday that Pope Francis new mandate that priests and nuns report sex abuse is that it requires the church to police, instead of notifying law enforcement.. ..…
FILE - Bishops and cardinals attend Mass officiated by Pope Francis at the opening of Synod of Bishops, St. ..…
Bishops and cardinals accused of abuse or covering up for priests are to be investigated by senior, or so-called metropolitan bishops, who must complete their reports within 90 days — unusually fast for the church’s notoriously slow bureaucracy — and can ask lay experts to assist them. . . . ..…
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