Tag: Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

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Zero tolerance for clerical sexual abuse of children

Zero Tolerance Clergy Abuse Title: Zero tolerance for clerical sexual abuse of children Author: UCA News Reporter, New Delhi Publisher: UCA News Date: 21JUL2020 Indian bishops back new Vatican guidelines that call for even vague and anonymous claims to be investigated. Catholic bishops in India have agreed to follow new Vatican guidelines to investigate allegations of

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Archbishop Morandi: “A manual to explain how to act when abuse is reported”

Archbishop Giacomo Morandi Vademecum Title: Archbishop Morandi: “A manual to explain how to act when abuse is reported” Author: Andrea Tornielli Publisher: Vatican News Date: 16JUL2020 The Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith explains how a new guide for reports of abuse will help Bishops and Religious Superiors. Archbishop Morandi says the

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Vatican issues guide for investigating priests accused of abuse

Vatican Vademecum Clergy Abuse Title: Vatican issues guide for investigating priests accused of abuse Author: Christopher Lamb Publisher: The Tablet Date: 16JUL2020 The Vatican has issued a detailed guide for how Church leaders should handle allegations of abuse by clergy against children. The handbook, a Vademecum, sets out how bishops and religious superiors should investigate abuse, including the obligation to

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Abuse victim of Opus Dei priest wants case to be acknowledged

Opus Dei Cociña Guilty Title: Abuse victim of Opus Dei priest wants case to be acknowledged Author: Ines San Martin Publisher: Crux Date: 13JUL2020 ROSARIO, Argentina – On June 30, Father Manuel Cociña, a Spaniard, became the first priest belonging to the personal prelature of Opus Dei to be found guilty and sentenced by the

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Church should empower victims to disclose abuse

Charles Scicluna Pontifical Secret Title: Church should empower victims to disclose abuse Author: Juliet Palmer Publisher: CathNews NZ Pacific Date:  06JUL2020 The Catholic Church needs to empower victims of clerical abuse to disclose their predicament, says Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna. It’s been more than a year since Pope Francis published “Vos Est Lux Mundi (You

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Top Vatican investigator on sex abuse says church must empower victims

Archbishop Scicluna Clergy Abuse Title: Top Vatican investigator on sex abuse says church must empower victims Author: Claire Giangrave Publisher: Religion News Service Date: 02JUL2020 VATICAN CITY (RNS) — It’s been more than a year since Pope Francis issued his historic document, “Vos Est Lux Mundi (You are the light of the world),” and ushered in

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Convicted priest is defrocked

Convicted priest Foxhoven defrocked Title: Convicted priest is defrocked Author: Herald-Star staff Publisher: Herald-Star Date: 27JUN2020 STEUBENVILLE — Henry Christopher Foxhoven, the Catholic priest who admitted impregnating a 17-year-old altar girl, has been defrocked. Foxhoven, 46, is serving 12 years in jail after pleading guilty in Athens County in November 2018 to three counts of sexual

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Survivors refute Scicluna’s statement that “silence and cover-ups” in the Church are now “a thing of the past”.

ECA Scicluna Pontifical Secret Title: Survivors refute Scicluna’s statement that “silence and cover-ups” in the Church are now “a thing of the past”. Author: Law, Tim; Buchanan, Denise; Isely, Peter Publisher: End Clergy Abuse Date: 02MAR2020 His Holiness, Pope Francis, Apostolic Palace, 00120 Vatican City. Dear Pope Francis, Our organization led the largest international gathering

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Top anti-abuse expert says ‘paternalistic’ attitude is worse than clericalism

Zollner Paternalistic Attitude Clericalism Title: Top anti-abuse expert says ‘paternalistic’ attitude is worse than clericalism Author: Elise Ann Allen   Publisher: Crux  Date: 13 MAR 2020 ROME – German Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, one of the Catholic Church’s leading experts in child protection, has said that more dangerous than clericalism in the clerical abuse crisis

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