An independent report has revealed numerous cases of sex abuse by clergy in a northern Italian diocese over six decades. The investigation uncovered 67 possible instances of abuse linked to 41 priests. The report highlights systemic failures within the Church…[Continue Reading...]
PARIS (AP) — The French Catholic Church has formally requested that prosecutors initiate an investigation into Abbé Pierre, a once-revered priest and humanitarian icon who died in 2007, following new revelations of sexual violence. Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort, president of…[Continue Reading...]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A priest who formerly worked in Louisville is facing charges of child sex abuse, and this isn't the first time he's been accused. Joseph Mouser, 86, was removed from public ministry in 2002 and is facing…[Continue Reading...]
Mike Ledingham says he cannot accept the King's Service Medal awarded to him this New Year. Photo / Supplied An abuse survivor who has spent 20 years campaigning for the redress and improvement of child safety in faith-based care settings…[Continue Reading...]
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $US880 million ($1.3 billion) to victims of clergy sexual abuse dating back decades, in what has been announced as the largest single child sex abuse settlement with a Catholic archdiocese. Archbishop…[Continue Reading...]
The sexual abuse crisis gripping the Catholic Church in Hungary has expanded to include the Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest, headed by the Hungarian primate Cardinal Péter Erdő. Attention previously focused on a wave of suspensions and prosecutions of priests in the Archdiocese of…[Continue Reading...]
Lawrence Hecker, an elderly and enfeebled former Catholic priest who pleaded guilty this month to raping a boy in a church gym in New Orleans nearly 50 years ago, died Thursday morning in prison only days after he began serving…[Continue Reading...]
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CNS) -- The Diocese of Orange has settled a sex abuse lawsuit involving a former vice principal of Mater Dei High School in 1978 for $3.5 million, a spokesman said Tuesday. The settlement was reached last month…[Continue Reading...]
A serial child molester and retired Roman Catholic priest on Wednesday declined an opportunity to apologize to his victims after pleading guilty to child rape earlier in December. Lawrence Hecker’s silence came on Wednesday in New Orleans’s state criminal courthouse…[Continue Reading...]
Michigan’s top state prosecutor on Monday issued a report outlining allegations against nearly 60 people at the Roman Catholic diocese of Lansing accused of sexually abusing children and vulnerable adults over the last seven decades. The state attorney general Dana…[Continue Reading...]
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