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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — New York prosecutors are subpoenaing each Catholic diocese in the state as part of investigations into clerical abuse after at least 1,000 victims were recently identified in neighboring Pennsylvania. All eight Catholic dioceses have either been or are in the process of being subpoenaed by New York’s state attorney general, confirmed Dennis Poust, spokesman for the New York State Catholic Conference. There are an estimated seven million Catholics across […]
by Paulina Abramovich Agence France Presse SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Scores of new cases of priestly sexual abuse of minors have come to light in Chile, public prosecutors said Friday, deepening a crisis in the country’s Catholic Church that has embroiled its Pope Francis. The country’s chief prosecutor’s office said the number of cases it was investigating had soared to 119 as more victims came forward. A total of 167 bishops, priests and lay […]
by Joseph Stenson and Catherine Marciano Agence France Presse DUBLIN, Ireland (AFP) — The Catholic Church’s Pope Francis expressed “pain and shame” over the Church’s failure to deal with abuse and met with eight victims during a visit to Ireland on Saturday where the prime minister pressed him to take action. Francis said the “failure of ecclesiastical authorities… adequately to address these repellent crimes has rightly given rise to outrage, and remains a source […]
by Joe Jackson Agence France Presse Accusations of wide-ranging abuse in Catholic institutions in Ireland, including but not limited to the sexual targeting of children by priests, date back several decades. In a sign of the scale of the issue, 14,500 people applied for compensation through an Irish government scheme for those abused at juvenile facilities run by religious groups between 1936 and 1970. As Pope Francis prepares to meet some victims during his weekend […]
by Catherine Marciano Agence France Presse VATICAN CITY (AFP) — With the Catholic Church rocked by a devastating US report into child sex abuse, Catholic Church’s Pope Francis has this week sharpened his criticism on the explosive issue — but he remains under pressure to enact far-reaching changes. The US grand jury report accused more than 300 “predator” priests in the state of Pennsylvania of abusing more than 1,000 children over seven decades, sparking […]
(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte slammed Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison on Tuesday, Aug. 21, for his remark on his health. In his first public appearance since Sison said there were reports he had gone into a coma, Duterte said Sison’s “mind is really abused by himself.” “Nobody else,” Duterte said. According to Duterte, he stayed in Davao to rest. “Let me just also disabuse the mind of Sison,” he added. In a […]
by Jennie Matthew Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A US report revealing that 300 priests sexually abused at least 1,000 children, facilitated by a Catholic Church cover-up, has increased calls to tighten laws and hold bishops accountable. The two-year investigation estimated that the real number of victims was “in the thousands” in Pennsylvania, the most comprehensive report into abuse in the US church that was first exposed in Boston in […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — The Vatican dismissed a Chilean deacon over sexual abuse accusations in central Chile, the archdiocese of the city of Rancagua said Friday, amid a widespread abuse scandal gripping the country’s Catholic Church. Luis Rubio was arrested for improper conduct and sexual abuse of minors when he was in charge of a Las Cabras school in 2013. A year later, the archdiocese of Rancagua dismissed him from his duties while an […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — Police on Wednesday seized church files in raids in Santiago and Rancagua, as the Catholic Church scrambled to try to put a better face on a sex abuse scandal that has rocked Chile. The surprise operations came as Maltese archbishop Charles Scicluna and fellow papal envoy Jordi Bertomeu are visiting for a second time to take witness statements from victims of sexual abuse in the church and provide instruction to […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AFP) — The Vatican’s top abuse investigator arrived in Chile on Tuesday, a day after the Catholic Pope accepted the resignation of three bishops from the scandal-wracked Chilean Church. Maltese archbishop Charles Scicluna and fellow papal envoy Jordi Bertomeu will take witness statements from victims of sexual abuse within the Church and provide instruction to Chilean dioceses to respond adequately to any new complaints. “We have come to ask forgiveness” from the victims on […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Child abuse victims and human rights activists from 15 countries on Thursday launched a new pressure group to campaign against abuse by Catholic clerics. “The church has got away with crime for too long”, said Peter Saunders, a British survivor of abuse, announcing the creation of the Ending Clerical Abuse (ECA) group at a press conference in Geneva. “ECA stands to compel the Roman catholic church to end clerical abuse, […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Eleven Florida men, including employees of Disney and Legoland and a volunteer for the Boy Scouts, have been arrested for possession and distribution of child pornography, police said Tuesday. A total of 660 charges have so far been brought against the 11 suspects in the operation, dubbed “Guardians of Innocence II” by the police department of Polk County in central Florida and conducted across the month of May. Sheriff Grady […]
