Tags - sex abuse
Pope Francis has announced sweeping changes to the way the Roman Catholic Church deals with cases of sexual abuse of minors, abolishing the rule of “pontifical secrecy” that previously covered them.
News ID: 448071 Publish Date : 2019/12/18
US priests say revelations of sexual abuse by clergyman in the Catholic Church has placed them under siege and is complicating their lives and those of their fellow priests across the United States.
News ID: 447975 Publish Date : 2019/12/13
An American Catholic bishop named by Pope Francis to investigate the church’s response to clergy sexual abuse has himself been accused of sexual abuse of an 11-year-old altar boy in the 1970s, according to an attorney for the alleged victim.
News ID: 447698 Publish Date : 2019/11/15
The attorney general in the US state of Missouri accused the Catholic Church of turning a blind eye to church sex abuse , referring a dozen former clergymen for criminal prosecution.
News ID: 447051 Publish Date : 2019/09/15
US Catholic bishops have approved new rules that require clergy to report suspicions of sexual assault against children, as the Catholic Church struggles with an ongoing sexual abuse crisis.
News ID: 445421 Publish Date : 2019/06/15
Pope Francis opened a four-day summit to fight the sexual abuse of children by members of the clergy amid scepticism and anger over the mishandling of decades-long cases.
News ID: 443601 Publish Date : 2019/02/23
Pope Francis has criticized US Catholic bishops for their approach to the sexual abuse crisis, saying the scandal has destroyed the Catholic Church’s credibility.
News ID: 442827 Publish Date : 2019/01/04
Rasa - Bishops in France have announced that an “independent” commission will be established to investigate the decades-long sexual abuse of minors in the Catholic Church in the European country.
News ID: 441436 Publish Date : 2018/11/08
Rasa - The leaders of three San Francisco Bay Area dioceses have been accused of engaging in sex abuse s along with 263 local priests who were branded sexual predators.
News ID: 441211 Publish Date : 2018/10/25
Rasa - The US Justice Department has opened an investigation into child sex abuse by hundreds of Catholic priests in the state of Pennsylvania, following the recent publication of a report on decades of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania.
News ID: 441125 Publish Date : 2018/10/19
Rasa The latest revelation of widespread child sexual abuse by US Catholic clergy has given impetus to efforts by legislators, including a Pennsylvania lawmaker who has said he was raped by a priest as a child, to make it easier to prosecute such cases.
News ID: 439136 Publish Date : 2018/08/16
Rasa - Pope Francis on Saturday accepted the resignation of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, one of the US Catholic Church’s most prominent figures, who has been at the center of a widening sexual abuse scandal.
News ID: 438878 Publish Date : 2018/07/30
Rasa - An Australian court has begun the trial of the most senior Vatican official that has ever been charged in Catholic Church sex abuse scandals.
News ID: 431241 Publish Date : 2017/07/26
Rasa - Victims of child sex abuse in the US state of New York say their fight for justice has been stalled by the political apparatus of the state’s Roman Catholic Church.
News ID: 427921 Publish Date : 2017/03/06