Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said two weeks ago that Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson should have resigned when he was convicted in May of failing to report to police the repeated abuse of two altar boys by a pedophile priest in the Hunter Valley region north of Sydney during the 1970s.
Sexual Abuse
Posted inEditorials, Faith
The Editors: The Catholic Church should not be shocked by the McCarrick case—it should be ashamed.
What can the church do to help repent for the sins of leaders like Cardinal McCarrick and all those who turned a blind eye to his wrongdoing?
Posted inFaith, News Analysis
Cardinal McCarrick, seminarians and abuse: how could this happen?
The case shows the mystifying complexity of the human person—or at least this human person.
Posted inFaith, News
N.Y. Times talks to men who received settlements after alleged abuse by Cardinal McCarrick
A front-page article published July 16 detailed the alleged abuse of two seminarians in the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, by then-Bishop Theodore E. McCarrick.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Australia bishop appeals conviction for protecting pedophile
The most senior Roman Catholic cleric to be convicted of covering up child sex abuse said Wednesday that he would appeal the verdict and resist public pressure to resign as archbishop of an Australian city.
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Australian bishop sentenced to one year’s detention for cover-up
The most senior Roman Catholic cleric to be convicted of covering up child sex abuse was sentenced to 12 months in detention by an Australian court Tuesday.
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Vatican City still has no policy to fight clergy sex abuse
Seven years after the Vatican ordered all bishops conferences around the world to develop written guidelines to prevent abuse, tend to victims, punish offenders and keep pedophiles out of the priesthood, the headquarters of the Catholic Church has no such policy.
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Pope Francis accepts two more bishops’ resignations in Chile
Pope Francis named two apostolic administrators to govern the now “vacant” dioceses.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Vatican diplomat sentenced to five years in prison for child pornography crimes
It is the first time that a Vatican official has been condemned for such a crime.
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Archbishop Coleridge: The church is now facing its own #MeToo moment
“There’s something going on in the culture. And one of the elements of that cultural shift is that people are prepared to speak up in a way that they would never have done before.”