An Australian diocese will pay up towards $2 million (in U. S. dollars) in compensation for a claim filed against a priest for clerical sexual abuse in the early 1990s.
Australia
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Australian states will require priests to report abuse disclosed in confession
Two more Australian states have passed legislation criminalizing priests who fail to report the abuse of children disclosed during confession.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Australian pro-life leaders organize to block bill legalizing abortion
New South Wales is the only Australian state where abortion remains a criminal offense.
Posted inFaith, News
Vatican issues statement after Australian court dismisses Cardinal Pell’s appeal
Three judges of the Victoria Court of Appeal voted 2-1 to uphold Cardinal Pell’s conviction.
Posted inFaith, News
Australian court upholds Cardinal George Pell’s child abuse convictions
Cardinal George Pell’s conviction on child sexual abuse charges was upheld by a 2-1 ruling of an Australian court of appeal.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Cardinal George Pell’s appeal verdict is coming—but it still might not be the final word.
Cardinal Pell would walk free if the three judges acquit him of the five convictions.
Posted inFaith, Politics & Society
Australian Cardinal Pell appeals child sex abuse convictions
Cardinal George Pell’s lawyers argued for more than five hours that the five verdicts against Pell were “unsafe and unsatisfactory” and should be overturned.
Posted inFaith, News
Cardinal Pell set to appeal child sex convictions
The most senior Catholic found guilty of child sex abuse will ask an Australian appeals court on Wednesday to reverse convictions on charges of molesting two choirboys in a cathedral more than 20 years ago as hundreds of worshippers streamed from Masses.
Posted inFaith, News
Australian Catholic Church releases standards for child protection
The Australian Catholic Church has released its National Catholic Safeguarding Standards, more than 18 months after they were recommended by the country’s landmark Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse, in the latest chapter in the overhaul of how the church responds to clergy sexual abuse.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Australia’s Cardinal Pell won’t fight sentence if he loses appeal
Cardinal Pell will appeal his conviction next month. His lawyers have filed an application arguing it should be overturned on three grounds.