Catholic Review
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
Father Carlos Martins, a known exorcist and co-host of “The Exorcist Files” podcast, pleaded not guilty Jan. 27 in an Illinois court to a misdemeanor charge of battery over an alleged incident that took place during a national relic tour.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Wrapping up a Vatican summit on the rights of children, Pope Francis announced he was going to publish a papal document dedicated to children.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News
It is unacceptable that a child’s right to life and a dignified childhood should be sacrificed to “the idols” of power, profit, ideology and nationalistic self-interest, Pope Francis told a group of world experts and leaders.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Eucharist, News, World News
Walk With One embraces the idea that everyone can — indeed, must — evangelize, and aims to equip them for sharing the Good News of Jesus’ love and compassion.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
The Diocese of Bolzano-Bressanone in Italy made history Jan. 20 by publishing the country’s first diocesan abuse report, titled “The Courage to Look.”
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Vatican, World News
Peruvian Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, the first cardinal of Opus Dei, said Jan. 25 that abuse accusations made against him in a Spanish daily El País are “completely false,” while acknowledging he was sanctioned by the Vatican in the past and saying that the sanctions were lifted by Pope Francis.
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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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