Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
The Code of Canon Law must more directly address the frequent spiritual manipulation and abuse of office wrought by members of the church to solicit sex, the Vatican’s doctrinal chief said.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
The president of French bishops’ conference has officially requested that prosecutors open an investigation into the case of Abbé Pierre, following new sexual assault allegations against the once iconic priest and advocate of the poor.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News
A new report confirms OSV News’ previous finding that U.S. Catholic dioceses and eparchies have paid more than $5 billion to settle abuse claims filed over the past two decades — but credible allegations have declined significantly over the same period, with the majority of cases preceding a landmark set of anti-abuse protocols established by the U.S. bishops in 2002.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Vatican, World News
People and institutions can protect children by changing what they buy and what they invest in, Pope Francis said.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
A lawyer for abuse survivors has accused San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of “endangering kids” by allegedly refusing to release the names of credibly accused priests — charges the archdiocese strongly denies, citing its compliance with the church’s norms for handling clerical abuse.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Retirement, Vocations, World News
Cardinal O’Malley, who was ordained a priest in the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin on Aug. 29, 1970, at the age of 26, has been a key figure at the highest levels of church governance in helping oversee reforms in the wake of the clergy sexual abuse crisis.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
A retired New Orleans priest who walked back a public admission of sexual abuse will spend his remaining years behind bars, after pleading guilty to charges for offenses dating from 1975-1976.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
Transparency and truth are of “critical importance” in the work of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (PCPM) and the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), the Secretary of the Disciplinary Section at the Vatican Dicastery has said.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Bishops, Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, World News
The proposal — co-written by members of the institute and the Seattle-based Ending Clergy Abuse human rights organization — called for a global extension of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ protocol of permanently removing from ministry credibly accused priests or deacons.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
A Catholic diocese on New York’s Long Island has seen its long-running bankruptcy filing finally concluded, enabling hundreds of sexual abuse claims to be settled.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Saints, World News
A tour of a relic of St. Jude conducted by Father Carlos Martins, a priest with the Companions of the Cross order known for hosting “The Exorcist Files” podcast, was halted Nov. 21 following an alleged “incident” involving students, according to a statement from Queen of Apostles Church in the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois and from the diocese.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
The Archdiocese of New York has announced staff cuts and a major revamp of its pastoral offices, as it sheds its longtime headquarters building and wrestles in court with its insurer to cover abuse claim payouts.
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