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Abuse Crisis

Doris Reisinger, who said she was subject to abuse by a priest while in a consecrated community, is pictured in Münster, Germany, in this Feb. 18, 2019, file photo. She encouraged every member of a community to know their rights. (CNS photo/Lars Berg, KNA)

Faith

Safer spaces: Protecting the dignity of consecrated people

Carol Glatz|Feb 3, 2022|5 Min Read

Miguel Hurtado, 36, who says he was sexually abused at the age of 16 by a Benedictine monk from Montserrat Abbey in Catalonia, poses for a portrait inside the church of the abbey in Montserrat, outside Barcelona, Spain, in this Feb. 2, 2019, file photo. (CNS photo/Susana Vera, Reuters)

World

Spain’s legislature to launch clerical abuse investigation

Inés San Martín|Feb 2, 2022|6 Min Read

Cardinal Gérald C. Lacroix of Quebec distributes Communion to an Innu woman during Mass on First Nations Sunday at the Shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupré June 27, 2021. More than two dozen Indigenous delegates, accompanied by a handful of Canadian bishops, plan to meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican March 28-April 1. (CNS photo/Philippe Vaillancourt, Presence)

World

Bishops, Indigenous Canadians reschedule meetings with pope for late March

Michael Swan|Feb 1, 2022|3 Min Read

Pope Benedict XVI presides at Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral in Sydney in this July 19, 2008, file photo. (CNS/courtesy of World Youth Day 2008)

Assessing Benedict’s record on abuse more complicated than it seems

John L. Allen Jr.|Jan 31, 2022|5 Min Read

German Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich and Freising gives a statement on the Munich abuse report to the media Jan. 27, 2022. The news conference came a week after the publication of the report on abuse in his archdiocese. (CNS photo/Robert Kiderle, KNA)

World

Munich cardinal to remain in office, apologizes for role in abuse cases

Catholic News Service|Jan 27, 2022|4 Min Read

Pope Benedict XVI blesses a couple during Mass at Westminster Cathedral in London in this Sept. 18, 2010, file photo. During his homily, the pope expressed his "deep sorrow" to the victims of clerical sexual abuse, saying these crimes have caused immense suffering and feelings of "shame and humiliation" throughout the church. (CNS photo/Reuters pool)

Vatican editorial defends Benedict XVI after release of abuse report

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jan 26, 2022|3 Min Read

German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger celebrates a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican during the interregnum after the death of Pope John Paul II, in this April 18, 2005, file photo. (CNS photo/Jerry Lampen, Reuters)

World

Benedict XVI admits ‘incorrect’ info given to abuse inquiry

Inés San Martín|Jan 24, 2022|4 Min Read

The Frauenkirche, the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising. (Suicasmo/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 via CNA)

World

Benedict XVI, Cardinal Marx faulted in Munich abuse report

Catholic News Agency|Jan 20, 2022|5 Min Read

Pope Francis arrives for a meeting with Spanish bishops during their "ad limina" visits to report on the state of their dioceses, at the Vatican Jan. 14, 2022. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

World

Spanish bishops meet with pope, vow to investigate sex abuse cases

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jan 14, 2022|3 Min Read

Bishop William McGrattan of Calgary, Alberta, vice president of the Canadian bishops' conference, is pictured in an undated photo. He said a national framework for a five-year, $30 million (US$23.5 million) fundraising campaign to help with healing and reconciliation of residential school survivors and their communities is coming in the new year. (CNS photo/Michael Swan, The Catholic Register)

World

Canadian bishop: Plans for healing, reconciliation campaign finalized soon

Michael Swan|Jan 6, 2022|4 Min Read

Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick arrives for Ash Wednesday Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in this Feb. 13, 2013, file photo. (Paul Haring/CNS)

Prosecution of ex-Cardinal McCarrick takes next step in Massachusetts

John Lavenburg|Dec 22, 2021|3 Min Read

Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, leads a sunrise walk to end abuse, in Baltimore, Nov. 18, 2021. The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors hosted a three-day seminar at the Vatican examining the rights in church trials of those alleging they suffered sexual abuse as children. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Papal commission looks at role, rights of alleged victims in abuse trials

Carol Glatz|Dec 15, 2021|3 Min Read

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