Tag: Abuse in the church

Addressing the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors 16 March, Pope Leo XIV underlined the importance of preventing abuse in the church, insisting that such responsibility must be concretely confronted and not delegated.

Clerical sexual abuse continues to be "a real crisis," one that the Catholic Church still must learn to deal with, particularly in improving the way it helps survivors while also ensuring the rights of the accused are respected, Pope Leo XIV said.

Pope Francis is embarking on yet another papal trip, this time, to Belgium, where the Catholic Church is far from free of challenges. One of its main concerns is numbers, which is something the pope has spoken out about, for example in 2021 with the European bishops.

“I understood we were all like dogs. They told us to sit and we sat, to get up and we got up, to roll over and we rolled over,” said an Australian-born religious identified only as “Sister Elizabeth” in the book, Veil of Silence. After 30 years in religious life, she said she realises she, […]

Francis Sullivan’s passion is undoubted. His grasp of the real issues facing the Church isn’t. Francis Sullivan recently expressed concerns in the US National Catholic...