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August 13, 2018

'Appalling sexual abuse' by monks covered up at schools in England, inquiry finds

View across the valley of the monastery and college buildings of Ampleforth, a Benedictine abbey and college in north Yorkshire, England.

MANCHESTER, England – The "appalling sexual abuse" of children as young as 7 was covered up in two leading Benedictine-run schools in England to protect the reputations of predatory monks, a government-backed investigation concluded.

Published in International
August 9, 2018

Editorial: Another betrayal

Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick attends a Mass in Rome April 13, 2018. The retired archbishop of Washington faces a canonical trial on allegations he sexually abused a minor and seminarians some years ago. Pope Francis accepted his resignation from the College of Cardinals July 28.

The soul-crushing case of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is yet another example of one of God’s shepherds doing the devil’s work in a Church failing still to wash away what Pope Benedict XVI called the filth of clerical sexual abuse.

Published in Editorial