“Sugarcane” is, surprisingly, a story of healing, although the healing does not come from the church or its ministers.
Sexual Abuse
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I left the church. Now my kids are embracing it.
We often hear from readers who worry about how to pass the Catholic faith on to their children. This week’s episode of Jesuitical takes this question and looks at it in reverse.
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Exorcist priest pleads not guilty to battery charge over alleged incident during relics tour
Father Carlos Martins, an exorcist and co-host of “The Exorcist Files” podcast, pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge in an Illinois court Jan. 27.
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Emails reveal extent of New Orleans Saints’ damage control for Catholic sex abuse crisis
As New Orleans church leaders braced for the fallout from publishing a list of predatory Catholic priests, they turned to an unlikely ally: the front office of the city’s NFL franchise.
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Cardinal Fernandez: Reports of priests manipulating spiritual guidance for sex are ‘unfortunately not uncommon.’
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, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández said.
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More than $5 billion spent on Catholic sexual abuse allegations, new report finds
A lead researcher on the report by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate believes the findings represent the Catholic Church’s superlative commitment to transparency.
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Vatican to consider classifying ‘spiritual abuse’ as new Catholic crime
Pope Francis has asked the Vatican to study whether the Catholic Church should classify “spiritual abuse” as a new crime in order to address cases where priests use purported mystical experiences as a pretext for harming others.
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Head of Anglican Communion resigns over failures in dealing with ‘abhorrent’ abuse case
“It is very clear that I must take personal and institutional responsibility for the long and retraumatising period between 2013 and 2024,” Archbishop Welby said in a Nov. 12 statement.
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Pope Francis’ sex abuse commission calls for transparency and reparations in first-ever global report
The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors issued findings and recommendations in its pilot annual report, specifically calling for greater transparency from the Vatican’s sex abuse office, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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L.A. archdiocese to pay $880 million to settle more than 1,300 historic sex abuse claims
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has reached an agreement in principle worth $880 million to compensate more than a thousand decades-old claims of childhood sexual abuse.