Tag: sexual abuse

Christopher Saunders was sentenced to more than six years in jail for abusing young Aboriginal men.

Officials concede the National Redress Scheme may need years longer to clear its backlog.

A recent decision could open the floodgates for compensation claims on historical cases for the Catholic Church and other institutions.

Cardinal John Dew, New Zealand’s former Archbishop of Wellington has been cleared to return to ministry following church and police investigations into an historical abuse complaint.

On Sunday 14 March the annual Grammy awards were held in the US. Nothing more than a prideful chance for the rich and famous...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, then-prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, wrote to McCarrick in June 2008, asking him to move out of the seminary where he had an apartment and to "conduct a quiet life of prayer and penance for past imprudent actions."

Minister is challenged over Seal of Confession legislation which would be a "catastrophe" for survivors.

Sadly, it’s entirely plausible. Clericalism has sometimes infected individuals in these agencies to the point where they minimise or excuse bad clerical behaviour.

By Philippe Vaillancourt Jean Vanier, founder of the ecumenical L'Arche communities that provide group homes and spiritual support for people with intellectual disabilities, used his...

The Court of Appeal of the state of Victoria dismissed George Cardinal Pell’s appeal on Wednesday 21 August in Australia from his sexual abuse...

Seven years have passed since the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was called in response to widespread allegations of child...

When Catholics try to tell me that the sexual abuse crisis is largely manufactured by enemies of the Church, I agree with them - but we differ on who the real enemies are.