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Court Rejects Cardinal Pell’s Appeal of Child Sexual Abuse Conviction

22 Aug 2019
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C Barnett

Pell maintains his innocence and may appeal to the High Court of Australia In December the court found the senior cleric of the Catholic Church guilty of molesting two choirboys 13 years of age in St. Patrick...

Vatican May Allow Married Men to be Ordained in the Amazon Region

18 Jun 2019
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Alison Lesley

Priests in the Amazon region is estimated to be as low as one priest for every 10,000 Catholics The . This is making the Roman Catholic Church consider a change to a centuries-old norm, which states...

Children in Sisters of Nazareth Homes Were Beaten and Sexually Abused

31 May 2019
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Alison Lesley

The abuse was perpetrated over 50 years There were times when the children of both sexes staying in Lasswade, Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, and Cardonald were forced to endure degrading emotional abuse,...

Pope Issues Law that All Priests and Nuns Must Report Sexual Abuse

10 May 2019
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Alison Lesley

It is not mandatory to report crimes to local police A revolutionary . Reports must be presented even if the wrongs were committed by higher echelons in the church hierarchy, like cardinals and bishops....

L.A. Archdiocese Will Pay Out $8 Million to Abuse Victim

18 Apr 2019
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Kelly Frazier

The Archdiocese has paid $740 million in sexual abuse settlements over the past 15 years. The teenager was subjected to sexual abuse for a lengthy period by her Catholic high school's athletic director....

Pope Francis Assigned the First African-American Bishop to Head the D.C. Church

05 Apr 2019
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C Barnett

Archbishop Wilton Gregory may also become the first African-American Cardinal eligible to vote for the next pope. The 71-year-old will be the first African-American to hold the senior-most U.S. position...

Pope Francis says the Catholic Church Should Acknowledge its Abuse of Women

03 Apr 2019
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Gary Nguyen

The Church should support women's rights The Vatican released a 33,000-word letter authored by Pope Francis on April 2 where the pontiff asked the Church to have an "open doors" policy to acknowledge...

List of Hundreds of Illinois Catholic Clergy Accused of Sexual Abuse is Released

22 Mar 2019
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C Barnett

Priests, nuns, and a few laypeople find their names included in the latest sexual abuse report. The assignment histories of those named are also included. The report pointed out that church officials...

Southern Baptist Convention Cancels Seven Church Investigations

27 Feb 2019
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Derek Welch

As per the SBC Executive Committee, there is no need for any further inquiry into seven of the churches that find mention in the list. Only a few days after J.D. Greear, the president of the SBC,...

Cardinal George Pell Found Guilty of Sexual Abuse

26 Feb 2019
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C Barnett

Pell claimed innocence from all accusations The Vatican hierarchy suffered another blow after This conviction makes Pell the highest Roman Catholic leader to be indicted. Cardinal Pell is guilty...