Publication: Crux
Pressure Mounts For Buffalo’s Bishop Malone To Resign After Two Seminarians Leave Over Scandal
As pressure continues to mount for Buffalo Bishop Richard Malone to step down over his handling of sex abuse cases, two seminarians have publicly left the diocesan seminary and echoed ...
Argentina Prelate Says Clerical Abuse Crisis ‘Just Beginning’ In Pope’s Country
Although by now Catholics in some parts of the world have lived with the ferment caused by revelations of clerical sexual abuse for decades, a bishop who heads a commission ...
Ex-Seminarian Tells Sordid Story of Papal Ally’s Argentine Past
For some months now, the scandal surrounding Argentine Bishop Gustavo Zanchetta, a friend of Pope Francis brought by the pontiff to Rome and given a key position in the Vatican’s ...
Retired Wyoming Bishop Likely to Face Vatican Trial for Multiple Acts of Abuse
At a time when the U.S. Catholic bishops are meeting to vote on new measures for bishop accountability, Pope Francis has given the green light for a penal process for ...
Sexual Misconduct with Adults Next Scandal Facing the U.S. Church
As the U.S. bishops prepare to meet next week for their general assembly in Baltimore, they must be hoping it won’t be a repeat of this one. The bishops were ...
Vatican Secretary of State Claims McCarrick Investigation Ongoing, Gives No Timetable
As the case of ex-cardinal and ex-priest Theodore McCarrick makes fresh waves in the media, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has said an investigation into who knew what ...
In New Interview, Pope Francis Claims He ‘Knew Nothing’ About McCarrick
In his first direct comments about the case of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Pope Francis said that “about McCarrick I knew nothing, obviously, nothing, nothing.” “I said it many times, ...
Argentinean Catholics Demand Pope Francis Ensure ‘Zero Tolerance’ For Clergy Sex Abuse
Activist groups are calling on Pope Francis to guarantee the implementation of the Vatican’s “zero tolerance” for sexual abuses by clergy in Argentina, where they say the policy has not ...
Ex Head of Vatican Bank Faced ‘Spite, Traps, Threats and Intimidation’
In two recent interviews, the former president of the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), better known as the Vatican Bank, spoke about the relationship between members of the ...
Virginia Passes Law Requiring Clergy To Report Child Abuse
In response in part to the child sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church, Virginia will have a new law on July 1 requiring priests, ministers, rabbis and other clergy ...
Is ‘Zero Tolerance’ To Much to Ask?
A 'Zero Tolerance' Policy Towards All Forms of Sexual Harassment and Abuse -- Regardless of the Victims' Age -- Should be the Standard for All Clerics WHY was the 1917 ...
Cardinal DiNardo Flipflops on Accused Abuser in 3 Months Time
November 2018: When asked whether Fr. John Keller was credibility accused of sexual abuse, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo responded by saying "That's not a credible one." January 2019: Fr. Keller's ...
States Move to Lift Restrictions on Child Sex-Abuse Lawsuits
In many states across the U.S., victims of long-ago child sex-abuse have been lobbying for years, often in vain, to change statute of limitation laws that thwart their quest for ...
Final U.S. Jesuit Province Releases Names of Accused Abusers Bringing Total To Over 300 Jesuits Nationally
Fulfilling a vow to release the names of all U.S.-based Jesuits credibly accused of abuse, the Northeast Province of the Jesuits released a list on Tuesday, becoming the final province ...
Vatican Investigating Third Accusation of Abuse Against McCarrick
Six months after the scandal surrounding former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick first came to light - wherein accusations of sexual abuse from a former altar boy prompted subsequent revelations of abuse ...
It’s Clear Pope Francis ‘Owns’ This Synod
A Synod of Bishops is often described as the “Congress of the Catholic Church,” with the College of Cardinals being the Catholic Senate. Both comparisons are terribly inexact, beginning with ...
After Decades of Left v. Right, Is It Now Bishops v. Everybody Else?
Moments of great crisis generally affect institutions in multiple ways, some of which are immediately evident and others that take longer to discern. Amid the clerical abuse scandals currently rocking ...
How Obscure Italian Hospital Became the Eye of a Global Storm
In February 2013, in his last official act as pope, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI appointed a commissioner for a small, seemingly insignificant hospital in Rome, the Immaculate Dermatological Institute (IDI) ...
Vatican’s Child Protection Office Says it Prevents, Doesn’t Investigate, Abuse
Members of the Vatican’s commission for protecting young people in the Church have been listening to victims and survivors of abuse in Rome, while also pointing out they have no ...
Pope Francis Was Told About Priests Sexually Abusing Deaf Children in His Native Argentina
From December 2, 2106: Advocates for clerical sex abuse victims expressed outrage Thursday that a priest accused of sexually abusing deaf children in Italy wasn’t sanctioned by the Vatican and ...
What New Jersey Bishops, Now Retired, Knew about McCarrick Settlements
What became known following a New York Timesinvestigation into two seminarians who said they had been abused by former-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick is that settlements were reached with each man in ...
