This week on “Inside the Vatican,” we cover new developments in the case of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
Sexual Abuse
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Newspapers examine U.S. bishops’ responses to abuse allegations
The nearly 6,000-word article examines allegations of bishops covering up sexual abuse by priests in their dioceses or their own reported sexual misconduct.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Keep fighting clergy abuse, say Irish church leaders
Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin warned there was “a danger of complacency or inertia or of slippage into false confidence” in the church’s fight against clerical abuse.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
South African Archbishop: Excommunicate abuser priests
“There is palpable outrage against the Catholic Church hierarchy for its complicity, its silence and its cover-ups. For siding [with] and hiding perpetrators at the expense of victims.”
Posted inFaith, Your Take
Has the sexual abuse crisis affected your donations to the church?
“If they care about money above all, maybe they will listen to our outrage more once they suffer financially.”
Posted inEditorials, Faith
How do we restore trust in our church after the sex abuse crisis?
We must pray for the grace to proceed boldly wherever the painful truth of our failures leads us, trusting in the One who is faithful to the end.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
New York bishop removed from public ministry pending review of abuse claim
A New York auxiliary bishop has been removed from public ministry pending a Vatican review of a decades-old accusation of sexual abuse against him, a claim he denies, the Archdiocese of New York said in a letter released Oct. 31.
Posted inFaith, News
Church covered up priest’s abuse of 50 boys
A Roman Catholic diocese acknowledged Wednesday that it concealed for decades a priest’s admission that he sexually abused dozens of Iowa boys — a silence that may have put other children in danger.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Federal authorities order USCCB, dioceses to retain documents
Since its release, more than a dozen attorneys general around the country have announced investigations of their own, seeking church records about what diocesan authorities knew of past abuse.
Posted inFaith, News
Former nuncio to U.S. heard rumors of McCarrick misconduct in 1994
A former nuncio to the United States acknowledged hearing rumors about the sexual misconduct of Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick already in 1994.