Papal commission releases report highlighting progress in safeguarding October 29, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Highlighting progress made in safeguarding and recommendations for rectifying ongoing gaps, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors dedicated its first annual report to all victims and survivors of sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church.
Vatican safeguarding body meets with doctrine dicastery during plenary October 21, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Vatican, World News The Vatican’s safeguarding commission has “an opportunity and obligation to make the church a more Samaritan church,” Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, told commission members during its plenary assembly.
Los Angeles Archdiocese to settle more than 1,300 historic abuse claims in new agreement October 17, 2024By Pablo Kay OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has reached an agreement in principle worth $880 million to compensate more than a thousand decades-old claims of childhood sexual abuse.
New York Archdiocese sells office headquarters for reported $100 million October 11, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News The Archdiocese of New York has sold its longtime office headquarters, in a move first announced by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan in January.
In Argentina, Opus Dei ‘categorically’ denies allegations it’s involved in human trafficking October 11, 2024By Junno Arocho Esteves OSV News Filed Under: Books, Child & Youth Protection, News, World News Argentine prosecutors issued a request that a formal inquiry be opened into allegations of human trafficking and exploitation made against Opus Dei — accusations the organization has “categorically” denied.
Doctrine dicastery overturns Vatican ruling in priest laicization case October 10, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Vatican, World News The Vatican’s doctrine office has mandated the laicization of an Argentine priest accused of sexually abusing minors, overturning a surprise ruling from the Vatican Secretariat of State that imposed limitations on the priest’s activities.
‘Abbreviated bankruptcy’ strategy for parishes is a first in diocesan Chapter 11 abuse settlements October 3, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News The terms of a recent diocesan bankruptcy settlement, which require parishes to declare an “abbreviated bankruptcy,” are a first for such cases and shows the impact of a Supreme Court ruling in June, a legal scholar told OSV News.
Long Island diocese reaches $323 million bankruptcy settlement over abuse claims September 27, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News The Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y., has reached a preliminary settlement in what it called the “difficult ordeal” of its long-running — and at points contentious — bankruptcy case, while assuring the faithful that “no parishes are closing as a result of this process.”
Church should be ashamed, beg forgiveness for crime of abuse, pope says September 27, 2024By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The Catholic Church must plead for forgiveness for the crime of the abuse of minors by its members and everything must be done to prevent such “a disgrace” from ever happening again, Pope Francis said.
Pope expels 10 members, including bishop, from Peru-based Catholic movement September 26, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Following an investigation into an influential Peru-based Catholic movement that has expanded across Latin America and the United States, Pope Francis has expelled 10 members from its ranks for physical and spiritual abuse.
Church ‘needs to find a different way’ to address survivors, says Rosica accuser September 25, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News OSV News recently spoke with Father Michael Bechard, who alleges in a civil lawsuit filed in March with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that he was sexually abused by Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, a Vatican media expert, founder of a prominent Canadian national Catholic television network and organizer of the 2002 Toronto World Youth Day.
French bishops urge the Vatican, broader society to help investigate Abbé Pierre September 19, 2024By Caroline de Sury OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Vatican, World News As the Emmaus Community for the poor investigates accusations of sexual abuse against its once-iconic, now disgraced, founder Abbé Pierre, the case made international headlines as Pope Francis commented on it while on his return voyage to Rome from Asia last week.
