Tag: clergy sex abuse

Widespread cases of sexual abuse in the Church worldwide have become one of the biggest challenges for Pope Francis

The pope emeritus “is carefully reading the statements … which fill him with shame and pain about the suffering inflicted on the victims”

The women “stand in complete solidarity with the victim/survivor nun who broke the silence against continuous abuse and exploitation"

Pope Francis underlined that discernment is always needed “in the fight against abuses of all kinds”

Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni also said it intended to examine the report, "the contents of which are not currently known"

Germany's Catholic Church has been rocked by a string of reports in recent years that have exposed widespread abuse of children by clergymen

The women said they are “pained to see how insensitively a daughter of the Church is disowned, discredited, and devalued"

Unless women are given greater positions of authority to serve and protect children, the abuse will never end

The Church has to pay victims with its own assets, instead of asking parishioners to contribute for crimes committed by the clergy

The bishops knelt in an act of penance in Lourdes where an image of a weeping child was unveiled and an abuse survivor shared a testimony