Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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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.
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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.
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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.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Uncategorized, World News
A Texas bishop is urging Catholics in his diocese not to participate in sacraments with, or financially support, a community of Discalced Carmelite nuns who recently announced a formal association with the Society of St. Pius X.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, Local News, Maryland General Assembly, News
Arguing before the Maryland Supreme Court Sept. 10, an attorney representing the Archdiocese of Washington and an attorney representing the Key School in Annapolis called for justices to overturn the 2023 Child Victims Act as unconstitutional.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
The Archdiocese of Chicago announced Sept. 6 that a state investigation is underway into alleged sexual abuse by a newly ordained priest.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
The Archdiocese of Santa Fe has installed a plaque near the entrance of the Pastoral Center in Albuquerque “as a solemn acknowledgment and remembrance” of all victims of clergy sexual abuse, both living and deceased, within the archdiocese.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Social Justice, World News
More than two months after 5-year-old Loan Peña went missing in the northeastern Argentina town of Nueve de Julio, the church continues to promote marches to demand his captors release him.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Commentary
Fingers pointing at materialism and media must ultimately point to the church’s own miserable failures of leadership and its inability to inspire trust and confidence within a laity that may generously be described as “disappointed” or “disillusioned” with her efforts on many fronts, but especially on the issue of sexual abuse.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
A lawsuit launched in March has accused Father Thomas Rosica, the national director of World Youth Day 2002 in Toronto, of sexually assaulting a young priest in the lead-up to the event.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
Catholics in the Southern Italian city of Enna, Sicily, protested the local church’s role in covering up sexual abuse after a court recently ruled that the diocesan bishop sought to protect a priest accused of having abused several minors as a seminarian.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, World News
Scott Surette, a devout Catholic and longtime owner of a home inspection firm, is on a mission to help renew the church.
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