Under new legislation priests would be punished with up to five years in prison if they did not pass on details of abuse heard in Confession
Topic: clerical abuse crisis
Ireland’s foreign minister: Vatican must explain itself
Posted on Friday, 15 July 2011
Minister summons papal nuncio to a meeting following a report into the mishandling of child abuse allegations
Irish bishop criticised for lax response to abuse allegations
Posted on Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Report also says that Bishop John Magee of Cloyne, who resigned last year, admitted to ‘inappropriate behaviour’ with a young man
Rosminian order admits ‘inadequate’ response to abuse
Posted on Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Fr David Myers, head of the Rosminians in Britain, issues apology for sexual and physical abuse by priests in the 1960s
The men abused by Rosminians deserve compensation
Posted on Wednesday, 22 June 2011
I hope the order learns a lesson from Canada, where a Truth and Reconciliation Commission is working to bring healing to victims
The Rosminian order must face up to its past: what happened in Tanzania was a moral catastrophe
Posted on Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Last night’s programme was distressing to watch. The men who suffered abuse, though cruelly treated, have retained their dignity
Kenya’s clerical abuse cases should have been handled with more transparency
Posted on Monday, 30 May 2011
RTE’s programme about abuse in Africa showed two very different ways of handling the problem: facing up to it or keeping it quiet
Celibacy does not explain priestly abuse, says report
Posted on Thursday, 19 May 2011
But 1960s generation of priests lacked ‘careful preparation for a celibate life’, according to long-awaited John Jay report
Vatican orders world’s bishops to draw up guidelines on abuse
Posted on Monday, 16 May 2011
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith says every bishops’ conference must have guidelines for handling clerical sex abuse within a year
Fr Kit the ‘monster’ and the kindly priest I knew didn’t just seem like different people: they were different people
He had been granted the grace of ‘time for amendment of life’; and he had used it well