A Catholic psychologist has called the increasing rates of domestic violence during the pandemic a “pandemic within a pandemic.”

Church leaders in Africa are urging more attention be paid to the problem of spousal abuse during the pandemic.

The damage from sexual abuse cannot be treated by simply punishing offenders, writes the psychologist and former military chaplain Edwin T. Collins. But the church can help survivors by adapting post traumatic stress disorder models.

Archbishop Polak said the film showed required child protection standards were still not being observed in the Polish church.

Msgr. Slawomir Oder, the postulator for the sainthood cause of Pope John Paul II, has said recently that he had found no evidence that the late pope ever covered up cases of sexual abuse scandals.

Cardinal Pell was formerly Pope Francis’ finance minister and at one time the third-highest ranking cleric in the Vatican.