Firm Action Sex Abuse Title: Pope Leo XIV affirms celibacy for priests, demands ‘firm’ action on sex abuse Author: Nicole Winfield Publisher: Associated Press (AP) Date: 25JUN2025 ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV affirmed Wednesday that priests must be celibate and insisted that bishops take “firm and decisive” action to deal with sex abusers, as
Pope Leo Zero Tolerance Title: Pope Leo XIV says there should be no tolerance for abuse of any kind in Catholic Church Author: Franklin Briceno Publisher: Associated Press (AP) Date: 22Jun2025 LIMA, Peru (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has said there should be no tolerance in the Catholic Church for any type of abuse –
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
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
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
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: Clerical Abuse Survivor Group ‘Gravely Concerned’ by Election of New Pope Author: Joshua Rhett Miller Publisher: Newsweek Date: 08MAY2025 Survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests are calling on Pope Leo XIV to institute a zero-tolerance policy while demanding an investigation into his handling of prior misconduct allegations. The Survivors Network of those Abused
Title: Pope Leo XIV You Have The Power Now Use It Author: Joolsmagools®️ 👫 B4 ⛪️ Publisher: Pontifical Secret website Date: 09MAY2025 I don’t want to kill any enthusiasm for the new Pope so early in his Pontificate. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt and wait and see if he makes genuine change.
Next Pope Do More Than Francis Title: Will the next pope do more than Pope Francis to fight clergy sexual abuse? Author: Joan Vennochi Publisher: The Boston Globe Date: 05MAY2025 The priests were protected, not the children. Is the Catholic Church any different today than it was 20-plus years ago, when the scandal of clergy