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Anger and Courage: Sheila Hollins and the response to the Church’s sexual abuse scandal

December 07, 2022

Photo: Baroness Hollins and colleagues working on the Vatican Abuse Commission The Catholic Union’s annual Craigmyle Lecture was delivered on 28 November by Baroness Hollins of Wimbledon and Grenoside. Her talk was focused on the issue of sexual abuse within the Church, reflecting on years of experience directed towards preventing and combatting the issue. Shelia

Criminal, Sociopathic, Satanic — and a Story We’ve Heard Before

February 16, 2021

Ravi Zacharias, who died in May of last year, was American Evangelicalism’s superstar apologist. The movement’s flagship magazine, Christianity Today, headlined their recent report on him, “Ravi Zacharias Hid Hundreds of Pictures of Women, Abuse During Massages, and a Rape Allegation.” The story is worse than that. Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore called it “a pattern

Date set for Cardinal Pell’s last chance appeal hearing

February 16, 2020

Australia’s High Court has set a date for the final appeal of Cardinal George Pell, who was convicted in 2018 on five charges of child sexual abuse. The cardinal’s final appeal in the Australian judiciary will be heard March 11 and 12 by the High Court, according to Australian media reports. Pell lost an initial

Why has the Vatican taken over the Sodalitium movement?

January 11, 2018

A Colombian bishop has been appointed as papal commissioner to run the society while it undergoes reforms

Vulnerable young people: victims of the sexual revolution

September 18, 2017

Authorities turned a blind eye in Rotherham because they thought the relationships might be 'consensual'

French prosecutor throws out abuse cover-up claim against cardinal

August 01, 2016

Insufficient evidence means that Cardinal Philippe Barbarin will not be prosecuted