The Community of the Beatitudes, based in France, admits sexual abuse was committed by its founder and other senior figures
Topic: clerical abuse crisis
Heavy-handed child protection is eroding trust in Catholic schools
Posted on Thursday, 17 November 2011
Monks and other members of staff at Downside are now being treated with caution
Court rules that Church is liable for crimes of priests
Posted on Thursday, 10 November 2011
Ruling defines the relationship of a priest to his bishop as that of employee to an employer
Ealing Abbey to hand over control of school
Posted on Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Benedictines will no longer run school in west London following allegations of clerical sex abuse said to have occurred over 20 years
Ireland to close embassy to Holy See
Posted on Friday, 4 November 2011
Ireland’s foreign minister says closure is for economic reasons and is not related to the Cloyne report row
The broadcaster RTÉ has apologised for falsely accusing a priest of abuse. It’s not the first time for Irish media, sadly
Posted on Monday, 10 October 2011
Let us hope they will be more careful in future
Benedict XVI meets German clerical abuse victims
Posted on Saturday, 24 September 2011
Spokesman says Pope was ‘deeply shaken’ by encounter
Should a Taoiseach’s statements be factually true or merely emotionally satisfactory?
Posted on Friday, 9 September 2011
Surely, one lesson has been learned from the abuse crisis: lies and half-truths can be deadly
Archbishop Chaput installed at Philadelphia
Posted on Friday, 9 September 2011
New Archbishop of Philadelphia says Jesus will bring Church through ‘difficult moment’
There’s no excuse for clerical child abuse: but it needs to be recognised that the sexual abuse of minors is more common in secular society
The danger of scapegoating the Church is that it has given society an excuse not to address the problem