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Survivor advocacy group sounds alarm about several papabili records

Release Secret Abuse Archives Title: Survivor advocacy group sounds alarm about several papabili records Author: Aleja Hertzler-McCain Publisher: Religion News Service Date: 30APR2025 ROME (RNS) — An advocacy group of survivors of clerical abuse is raising concerns about several cardinals who are buzzed about as papabili, or potential popes. Survivors Network of those Abused by

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Abuse survivors to reveal new evidence on papal candidates at Rome press conference ahead of conclave

Rome Conclave Press Conference Title: Abuse survivors to reveal new evidence on papal candidates at Rome press conference ahead of conclave Author: Sarah Pearson Publisher: SNAP Date: 29APR2025 The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) will hold a press conference in Rome on Wednesday, April 30 at 11:00am to announce new information gathered

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Pope Francis Dies: Survivors Mourn The Tragedy of Francis’ Papacy

Pope Francis Conclave Watch Title: Pope Francis Dies: Survivors Mourn The Tragedy of Francis’ Papacy Author: SNAP President Shaun Dougherty & SNAP Publisher:  Survivors Network of Those Abused By Priests (SNAP) Date: 21APR2025 THE NEXT POPE MUST DO WHAT FRANCIS REFUSED: ENACT A UNIVERSAL ZERO TOLERANCE LAW FOR ABUSE AND COVER-UP SNAP LAUNCHES CONCLAVE WATCH

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Child sexual abuse scandal cast long shadow over Francis’s papacy

Long Shadow Over Papacy Title: Child sexual abuse scandal cast long shadow over Francis’s papacy Author: Harriet Sherwood Publisher: The Guardian Date: 22APR2025 Issue dogged Francis throughout his time as head of Catholic church, with abuse survivors saying he failed to do enough. In 2002, the Boston Globe published a series of articles exposing the

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Kieran Tapsell

Potiphar’s Wife 2nd Edition by Kieran Tapsell

Potiphar’s Wife 2nd Edition Title: Potiphar’s Wife – The Vatican’s Secret and Child Sexual Abuse 2nd Edition Author: Kieran Tapsell Publisher: C & F Press Date: 04DEC2024 Book overview For 1,500 years, the Catholic Church accepted that child sexual abuse was not only a sin but a civil crime, deserving of imprisonment and worse. From the

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Belgian Church official warns Vangheluwe case could mar papal visit

Pope Francis Vangheluwe Belgium Title: Belgian Church official warns Vangheluwe case could mar papal visit Author: Luke Coppen Publisher: The Pillar Catholic Date: 31JAN2024 A Belgian Church official has told a parliamentary committee that the Vatican’s failure to laicize a bishop who admitted to abuse threatens to overshadow Pope Francis’ scheduled visit to the country. Archbishop Luc

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Benedict’s brief papacy was marred by the priest sex abuse scandal

Pope Emeritus Benedict’s death Title: Benedict’s brief papacy was marred by the priest sex abuse scandal Author: Corky Siemaszko Publisher: NBC News Date: 01JAN2023 The priest sex-abuse scandal was the albatross around the neck of Pope Emeritus Benedict’s brief eight-year reign as leader of the Roman Catholic Church, according to Vatican analysts. Long-suppressed allegations that priests had been preying

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Former CBC Fremantle student claims chaplain Damian Barker sexually abused boys in ‘lockable confessional’

Damian Barker Sexual Abuse Title: Former CBC Fremantle student claims chaplain Damian Barker sexually abused boys in ‘lockable confessional’ Authors:  Rebecca Turner and Nicolas Perpitch Publisher: ABC News Date:  16AUG2022 At the heart of a school where Fremantle’s Catholics sent their boys to be educated, a chaplain created his own lockable confessional to allegedly sexually abuse primary

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Canada says pope’s apology to Indigenous not enough

Justin Trudeau Pope Francis Title: Canada says pope’s apology to Indigenous not enough Authors: Nicole Winfield and Rob Gillies Publisher: Associated Press (AP) Date: 28JUL2022 QUEBEC CITY (AP) — The Canadian government made clear Wednesday that Pope Francis’ apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the country’s church-run residential schools didn’t go far enough, suggesting

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