NCR exposed Catholic Church Title: NCR first exposed Catholic Church’s sex abuse scandal 40 years ago this month Author: Ryan Di Corpo Publisher: National Catholic Reporter (NCROnline) Date: 19JUN2025 Forty years ago this month, readers of the National Catholic Reporter first learned through a series of three articles about a dark secret in the Catholic
New Jersey Grand Jury Title: New Jersey can have a grand jury investigate clergy sex abuse allegations, state high court rules Author: Mike Catalini Publisher: AP News (Associated Press) Date: 17JUN2025 TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey can have a grand jury examine allegations of clergy sexually abusing children, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Monday,
Transparency Twin Sibling of Silence Title: A Pending Element of Tackling The Abuse Crisis: Transparency Author: Paulina Guzik Publisher: OSVNews Date: 15JUN2025 (OSV News) — While much was done during Pope Francis’ pontificate to tackle the global abuse crisis — a crisis moving at differing speeds in the church, depending on the country — one significant
Title: How will Pope Leo tackle the sex abuse crisis? Author: Colleen Dulle Publisher: America Magazine (America Media) Date: 12JUN2025 A month into Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, images of artwork created by the disgraced priest Marko Rupnik began disappearing from the Vatican News website—a departure from the Vatican’s earlier stated policy of keeping the artwork
Hero Denis Ryan Dies Title: Child abuse survivors pay tribute to Victorian detective Denis Ryan Author: Tyrone Dalton Publisher: ABC News Date: 03JUN2025 In short: Former Victoria Police detective Denis Ryan has died in Mildura, aged 93. Mr Ryan was driven from the police force in 1972 after his superiors stopped him from charging paedophile
Pope Leo XIV’s history handling abuse Title: Victims group claims Pope Leo XIV has a history of mishandling cases of sexual abuse committed by priests Author: Kaitlin Washburn Publisher: The Chicago Sun-Times Date: 21MAY2025 A group representing survivors of clergy abuse alleges Pope Leo XIV has a poor track record handling allegations of sexual assault
Title: Pope Leo XIV and some unfinished business Author: Kieran Tapsell Publisher: Pearls and Irritations (John Menadue’s Public Policy Journal) Date: 19MAY2025 In its 2017 Final Report, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse recommended changes to canon law, the most important of which was the abolition of the pontifical secret
OPEN LETTER TO POPE LEO XIV Your Holiness Pope Leo XIV, I write to you not as a theologian or canon lawyer, but as a voice for victims, for truth — and for countless children silenced by the Catholic Church’s misuse of secrecy, power, and privilege. For decades, the Vatican has protected perpetrators of child
Title: Pope Leo XIV’s religious order still mired in secrecy over child sex abuse Author: Robert Herguth Publisher: Chicago Sun Times Date: 09MAY2025 Cardinal Robert Prevost, the new pope and the first U.S. leader of the Catholic Church worldwide, is already being hailed as a breath of fresh air by some. But the ancient religious
Title: Clergy molestation survivors concerned and insulted by election of Pope Leo XIV Author: Ramon Antonio Vargas Publisher: The Guardian Date: 10MAY2025 Groups supporting clergy-molestation survivors say they are gravely concerned and insulted by the election of Pope Leo XIV after he overcame questions about his handling of clerical sexual abuse cases earlier in his