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UN denounces Vatican over child abuse and demands immediate action
Devastating UN report demands Vatican ‘immediately remove’ all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers A UN human rights committee has denounced the Vatican for adopting policies that allowed...
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Pope hits out at criticism of Church over sexual abuse
Pope Francis has strongly defended the Roman Catholic Church’s record on tackling sexual abuse by priests. In a rare interview with an Italian newspaper, the Pope said “no-one else has done more” to...
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UN watchdog grills Vatican over child abuse
A UN anti-torture watchdog on Monday began a two-day grilling of the Vatican over its efforts to stamp out child sex abuse by priests. The hearing is the Vatican’s first since 2002, when it signed up...
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Pope Francis: 1 in 50 clerics is a pedophile
In an interview, the pontiff also hinted that ban on marriage for priests may one day be lifted One in 50 clerics is a pedophile, Pope Francis said in an interview published Sunday, in which he also...
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Pope’s former envoy under arrest over child abuse charges
Archbishop Josef Wesolowski, the highest ranking Catholic to be investigated over child abuse, is now under house arrest at the Vatican pending a criminal trial following accusations of the sexual...
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The UN wants the Abbott government to take on the Vatican over documents relating to child abuse by Catholic clergy. In a report handed down in Geneva on Friday, the United Nations Committee Against...
View ArticlePope Francis told to hand priests over to police as new Vatican child abuse...
The Vatican’s new commission for protecting children from sexual abuse holds its first meeting in Rome on Friday Pope Francis should immediately hand over to the police all the Vatican documents on...
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Catholic bishop of Kansas City convicted of failure to report child abuse...
ROME — In what is likely to be hailed as major step toward accountability for Catholic bishops who mishandle sexual abuse allegations, the Vatican has announced the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn...
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Vatican tribunal to hear cases of bishops accused of covering up child abuse
Pope Francis approves proposals to create specific process for dealing with senior clerics who are negligent in handling abuse Pope Francis has established a tribunal to investigate bishops accused of...
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First Vatican child abuse trial places former nuncio in dock
Fate of Józef Wesołowski, accused of abusing boys in the Dominican Republic, seen as test of pope’s new approach to tackling alleged clerical wrongdoing The first high-ranking Vatican official to be...
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