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On the Fourth Day of Christmas: Martyrs in deed, not will
December 28, 2022
The sad truth is that the murder of however many infants there may have been at the time, a monstrous crime though it is, would barely have made a ripple in the violent, stormy history of Judea, says Richard Ounsworth OP
When Your Church Hides Dead Children
June 09, 2021
My church and my country, and a community I value, have been implicated in hiding a mass grave of abused children. An unmarked mass grave of 215 indigenous children has been discovered under a residential school in British Columbia run by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. This has haunted me as a Catholic, as a
German cardinal takes further action in wake of independent abuse report
March 26, 2021
Asked by reporters if he intended to resign, Woelki said: “To simply accept moral responsibility and go -- to protect the standing of the episcopate and the Church -- would be too easy and is, in my view, wrong.”
Former Cheyenne Bishop Skates on Abuse Charges
January 26, 2021
The accusations against the 89-year-old Bishop Hart involved 11 victims who were boys at the time of the alleged crimes, and one girl. “These findings do not equate to innocence,” A statement from the diocese of Cheyenne said, “rather, a high burden of proof has not been met.”
14 Basilian priests accused of sexual assault
October 14, 2020
Toronto's CityNews published the investigation on Tuesday.
‘I now understand why abuse victims leave the Church’: Susanna’s story
July 18, 2020
Susanna's story in her own words.
Pope Francis appoints apostolic administrator for troubled Polish diocese
June 25, 2020
Pope Francis has appointed an apostolic administrator to take charge of a Polish diocese whose bishop is under investigation over his handling of an abuse case
The change to the ‘pontifical secret’ does less than it appears to do
December 18, 2019
By now, readers will have heard that Pope Francis has issued a rescript lifting the so-called “pontifical secret” under which the Church has until now conducted investigations and canonical trials related to sexual abuse and cover-up, sexual violence, and other similarly grave crimes against minors and vulnerable adults. The pontifical secret remains in force over
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