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 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
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
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.
Conclave Watch Zero Tolerance Title: Zero Tolerance Author: SNAP Network Publisher: SNAP Network Date: APRIL 2025 Despite four decades of public exposure of widespread sexual abuse, there is still no universal law in the Catholic Church that requires that Catholic leaders who have sexually abused children or vulnerable people be permanently removed from ministry. Nor