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March 27, 2017

Vatican sex abuse commission seeks new ways to be informed by victims

U.S. Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, speaks during a seminar on safeguarding children at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome March 23.

VATICAN CITY – Following the resignation of a prominent member and abuse survivor, a pontifical commission charged with addressing issues related to clergy sex abuse vowed to continue to seek input from victims and survivors.

Published in International
March 25, 2017

Search goes on to find root causes of clerical sex abuse

Raymond Lahey, the defrocked bishop of Antigonish, N.S., was convicted of possessing child pornography in 2011.

In a moment of truth and clarity, Archbishop Anthony Mancini once summed up the shock he has shared with most Catholics over the last 30 years as a feeling of “shame and frustration, fear and disappointment, along with a sense of vulnerability and a tremendous poverty of spirit.”

Published in Features
May 4, 2014

‘So much denial’ on sexual abuse crisis, says Cardinal O'Malley

Cardinal Sean O'Malley said the Catholic Church has failed to recognize the worldwide reach of clerical abuse.

VATICAN CITY - The Roman Catholic Church has failed to recognize the worldwide reach of clerical sexual abuse, said Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley.

Published in Vatican