Pope tells the head of the CDF to continue Benedict XVI’s line of decisive action on abuse
Topic: clerical abuse crisis
Pope accepts resignation of Cardinal Keith O’Brien
Posted on Monday, 25 February 2013
Cardinal resigns just a few weeks before he was due to step down because of age
A new scandal is shaking the Aussie Church
Posted on Wednesday, 22 August 2012
Police are currently looking into alleged cover-ups involving three senior churchmen
A disappointing start to the global battle against abuse
Posted on Wednesday, 18 July 2012
The Vatican gave bishops around the world a year to produce the most basic guidelines on handling abuse allegations and more than half of them failed to submit the text in time
Court rules that Diocese of Portsmouth is liable for clerical abuse
Posted on Thursday, 12 July 2012
Diocese says it is considering an appeal to the Supreme Court
Most bishops’ conferences miss Vatican deadline on drafting abuse guidelines
Posted on Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Mgr Scicluna says without counting Africa a majority of conferences have complied with Vatican instruction
The Irish government is going to make it a criminal offence for a priest not to tell the gardai when a sex offender confesses his crime: I say, bring it on
Posted on Friday, 15 June 2012
A few dozen Irish priests in jail will do the Church nothing but good
Only a proper understanding of the priesthood will renew the Irish Church
Posted on Friday, 15 June 2012
Ireland has seen two nasty extremes: fawning over and hatred of priests. The solution lies in rediscovering what the priesthood is about
Irish Church is on the path to renewal, Church leaders tell pilgrims
Posted on Monday, 11 June 2012
Archbishop Martin welcomes more than 12,000 pilgrims from 120 countries
Cardinal Brady now has a coadjutor, and will almost certainly retire early, after a wholly undeserved media witch-hunt, incited by the BBC
He has suffered a profound injustice: and the BBC now has yet another reason to be ashamed of itself