German Catholic Church apologises for ‘pain’ of abuse victims
The head of the Catholic Church in Germany apologised on Tuesday “for all the failure and pain”, after a report found thousands of children had...
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Church in Australia rejects abuse reporting, defying new laws
The Catholic church in Australia said on Friday it would oppose laws forcing priests to report child abuse when they learn about it in the confessional, setting...
Archbishop in Pope crisis says corruption reaches the top
The archbishop who sparked a crisis in the Catholic Church by calling on Pope Francis to resign has denied he was motivated by personal vendetta and said...
Pope to meet sexual abuse victims in Ireland as scandal jars Church
Pope Francis will meet victims of clergy sexual abuse during his trip to Ireland this weekend, the Vatican said on Tuesday, as scandals in several...
Pope accepts bishop’s resignation following misconduct allegations
Pope Francis accepted the resignation of a senior Roman Catholic bishop in Honduras on Friday, following allegations of financial and sexual impropriety against the cleric....
The eighth and the sixth
By Colette Ni Reamonn Ioannidou IN MY time, Roman Catholic primary school youngsters had two sets of tables drummed into them; the one and one...
Cardinal Bernard Law, symbol of Church’s sexual abuse crisis, dies
Cardinal Bernard Law, the former archbishop of Boston who became a symbol of the Roman Catholic Church’s worldwide sexual abuse scandals, died on Wednesday, the Vatican said....
Police question French cardinal over paedophile priest
French police questioned the Roman Catholic cardinal-archbishop of Lyon on Wednesday in an investigation into the activities of a paedophile priest in the early 1990s...
Three years on, pope leaves Catholic conservatives feeling marginalised
By Philip Pullella and Tom Heneghan Three years after the election of Pope Francis, Roman Catholic conservatives are growing increasingly worried that he is quietly...
‘Evil was done’, cardinal says after meeting abuse survivors
By Philip Pullella and Jane Wardell Cardinal George Pell, under fire for his handling of sexual abuse of children by priests in Australia, on Thursday...
