Vatican, Feb 21 2019: One of the Catholic Church’s most senior cardinals has admitted that he could have better handled sexual abuse allegations that were brought to him. Oswald Gracias, the Archbishop of Mumbai is one of four men organising a major Vatican conference on child abuse this week. InvestigationContinue Reading
A Brazilian Catholic archbishop has banned priests in his district from being alone with children. Manoel Delson, archbishop of the northeastern state of Paraiba, signed the decree on Wednesday following a court order forcing the archdiocese to pay almost £2.5m in compensation over the sexual exploitation of minors. Mr Delson’sContinue Reading
New York, Oct. 23, 2018: In the wake of recent reports concerning widespread sexual harassment and sexual abuse at seminaries, an American seminary professor has suggestions for how the seminary process could improve. Fr. Thomas Berg, a professor of moral theology and director of admissions at St. Joseph’s Seminary inContinue Reading
On Aug 20, Pope Francis released a letter responding to the massive sexual assault crisis involving 1,000 victims and 300 priests in the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania. Francis condemned “clericalism,” called the entire Catholic Church to fasting and prayer, and presented the scandal in terms of God’s judgment on an unfaithfulContinue Reading
More than 300 “predator priests” were found to have committed sexual abuse in Pennsylvania, harming more than 1,000 children, according to a grand jury report released by the state supreme court on August 14. The near-900-page report is the result of one of the largest US investigations into sexual abuseContinue Reading
ROME : Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent – the sexual abuse of nuns byContinue Reading