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Catholic Church sexual abuse cases

A parishioner enters into the Catholic church of Cazurra, a village of around 75 inhabitants, in the Zamora province of Spain, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021.

‘People want to shed light’: Spain finally investigates sexual abuse within Catholic institutions

Religion

As full inquiries into clerical abuse swept Europe, Spain remained an outlier. Now, two separate investigations are underway.

Pope Francis bows his head in prayer. Around him are other members of the clergy wearing red caps

‘Why don’t you don’t rise to the occasion?’ clergy sex abuse advocate asks of Vatican conference

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Former top Vatican official calls for resignation of pope over abuse crisis

Women from a haberdashery shop hold up their new Pope Francis Ireland flag

For Irish Catholics, there’s both enthusiasm and anxiety about Pope Francis’s visit

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Saint Patrick Catholic Church is seen in York, Pennsylvania, Aug. 18, 2018

A new chapter, with the same old words, in the Catholic child abuse scandal

Religion
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Pope Francis delivers a speech

Vatican finally responds to shocking and scathing Pennsylvania investigation of priest sex abuse

Religion

In a statement, Vatican spokesman Greg Burke also said the Catholic Church “must learn hard lessons from its past”, and that the Vatican vowed to hold abusers and enablers accountable.

Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus Theodore McCarrick waves

American cardinal resigns over allegations over sexual abuse

Religion

Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, DC, and one of the US Catholic Church’s most prominent figures, resigned as cardinal after “credible” allegation he abused a teenage boy and other allegations that he forced adult seminarians to sleep with him.

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In Chile, Pope Francis defends bishop in sex abuse scandal

Conflict

“The day they bring me proof against Bishop Barros, then I will speak,” the pope said in response to a journalist’s question about the 61-year-old bishop.

Boston's Roman Catholic Cardinal Bernard Law leads a prayer service for Boston area Catholic youth in Newton, Massachusetts, before joining them on a nine-hour bus ride to Toronto to see Pope John Paul II and attend World Youth Day July 23, 2002.

The late Cardinal Law will be remembered as the face of the Catholic Church’s child sexual abuse crisis

Religion

Cardinal Bernard Law has been described as “a titan of 20th century American Catholicism.” But he will be remembered for one thing: covering up child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.

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