Claim that Mary MacKillop was excommunicated for speaking out against an abusive priest is an invention, says Fr Gardiner
Topic: clerical abuse crisis
Claims about MacKillop’s excommunication are false, says postulator
Posted on Thursday, 7 October 2010
Irish archbishops travel to Rome to prepare for Visitation
Posted on Thursday, 30 September 2010
Ireland’s four most senior prelates to meet Apostolic Visitors appointed to address the clerical abuse crisis
Pope ‘could visit Ireland in 2012′
Posted on Thursday, 23 September 2010
Martin McGuinness, Northern Ireland deputy first minister, says he has ‘grounds’ to believe a visit may happen
Benedict XVI exposed the heart of the Catholic faith
Posted on Thursday, 23 September 2010
We owe him our deepest gratitude. His visit was as great a success as that of John Paul II in 1982
Papal Visit 2010: third day’s briefing
Posted on Saturday, 18 September 2010
A summary of the big stories from the third day of the Papal Visit
Pope meets victims of sex abuse in London
Posted on Saturday, 18 September 2010
As on other trips, on this journey to the United Kingdom Benedict XVI met with victims of acts of sexual abuse committed by priests
Pope Benedict meets victims of clerical sex abuse
Posted on Saturday, 18 September 2010
The meeting lasted 30 to 40 minutes, longer than the Pope gave to the Prime Minister
Pope expresses shame at child abuse in the Church
Posted on Saturday, 18 September 2010
Pope: ‘I express my deep sorrow to the innocent victims of these unspeakable crimes’
Papal Visit 2010: Westminster Cathedral homily – full text
Posted on Saturday, 18 September 2010
Full text of Pope Benedict XVI’s homily at the Westminster Cathedral Mass
Priests can be victims of injustice, too
It is fatally easy to assume that priests accused of sex abuse are guilty until proven otherwise