Tag: clergy sex abuse

Cardinal Marx offered to resign, saying he had to share institutional responsibility for sexual abuse by clerics over past decades

Cardinal Marx said churchmen had to take personal responsibility for institutional failings

The 12 media outlets pleaded guilty in February to breaching the gag order on reporting on the trial and conviction of the cardinal

The revision aims to “reduce the number of cases in which the imposition of a penalty was left to the discretion of authorities”

Archbishop Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne welcomed the Vatican decision to send inspectors

The Vatican said the possibility of moving the residence had been studied "for some time"

The priest was suspended and stripped of his positions in the Archdiocese of Cebu following sex abuse allegations

The Archdiocese of San Fernando says it "reserves the right to take appropriate actions as a more thorough investigation progresses"

It was the latest case of alleged sexual abuse or cover up to rock predominantly Catholic Poland

Archbishop Rainer Maria Woelki of Cologne said he would examine the report, which he described as a "first step"