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Pope meets with child protection board as events outside Vatican show abuse scandal isn't going away
Associated Press via AOL· 2 months agoPope Francis sought to encourage his child protection board on Thursday to continue helping victims,...
Vatican opens preliminary abuse probe into French cardinal
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Vatican said Friday it has decided to launch a preliminary sex abuse investigation into a...
Bishop named to Vatican office handling sex abuse complaints discounted some victims, US group says
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA U.S.-based group that tracks how the Catholic hierarchy deals with allegations of sexual abuse by...
Argentine child abuse victims urge Pope Francis to hear their grievances
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA group representing victims of child abuse in Argentina is calling on Pope Francis, a fellow...
UN, abuse survivor groups seek Vatican investigation of Belo
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe United Nations and advocacy groups for survivors of clergy sexual abuse are urging Pope Francis...
Pope expands sex abuse law, reaffirms adults can be victims
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoPope Francis on Saturday updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding senior churchmen accountable for...
Former Pope Benedict XVI dies at age 95
Yahoo News via AOL· 1 year agoPope Benedict XVI greets the faithful during an audience at the Vatican in 2007. (Andrew Medichini/AP) ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — The Vatican announced...
Expanding clergy sexual abuse probe targets New Orleans Catholic church leaders
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoAuthorities have expanded an investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in...
Ousted Caritas chief denounces Vatican 'power grab'
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Vatican’s main charitable organization, Caritas Internationalis, is hoping to open a new chapter this week after Pope Francis fired top managers over...
UPDATE 5-Australian Cardinal George Pell, acquitted of child sex abuse, dead at 81
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoAustralian Cardinal George Pell, a leading Roman Catholic conservative and former top Vatican official who was acquitted in 2020 of sexual abuse accusations, died on Tuesday at the age of 81 ...