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The US bishops are welcoming the Vatican's recent revision of the Church's "more grave crimes" as a step forward in addressing the sex abuse scandal. Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane, …
read moreThe Vatican has gathered all the pertinent documents on the Church's response to the sexual abuse crisis and posted them together on it's Web site. It launched the new page Thursday, the same …
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read moreHere is the note Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the director of the Vatican press office, issued today on the significance of the publication of the new "Norms concerning the most serious …
read moreHere is the Vatican translation of the norms for addressing cases of "gravioribus delictis" (grave crimes), published today by the Vatican press office. * * * Part One SUBSTANTIVE NORMS Art. 1 …
read moreHere are the Vatican translations of the introductory and explanatory letters that detail the changes made to the 2001 apostolic letter "Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela," which outlines the …
read moreThe Brussels public prosecutor's office confirmed Friday that Cardinal Godfried Danneels, retired archbishop of the city, did not download pornography to his computer. The authorities' …
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read moreIt's 2002 all over again, and the Church is once more passing through the painful process of coming to grips with a new wave of sexual abuse cases. But what's different this time is that the …
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read morearticle-29576?l=english --- --- --- On the Net: Full report from Pew Research Center: pewforum.org/Christian/Catholic/The-Pope-Meets-the-Press--Media-Coverage-of-the-Clergy-Abuse-Scandal.aspx
read moreA new documentary, titled "Bad Apples," reports on the problem of sexual abuse by clergy and the Vatican's response over the past years. The 45-minute video, produced by the television news …
read moreThe Archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau is denouncing a campaign to implicate its head, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, in the alleged cover-up of an abuse case that happened in the 1960s. An …
read moreIf bishops in Italy have been responsible for covering up abuses committed by clergy in the past, these are mistakes that will be corrected, says the president of the Italian bishops' …
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