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by Catherine Marciano Agence France Presse VATICAN CITY (AFP) — The Catholic Church’s Pope Francis has declined to comment on a claim that he ignored sexual abuse allegations against a senior clergyman amid speculation conservative elements in the Catholic hierarchy are using the issue to mount a “putsch” to remove the liberal pontiff. Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a former Vatican envoy to the United States, on Saturday said he had told Francis of the […]
by Joseph Stenson and Catherine Marciano Agence France Presse KNOCK, Ireland (AFP) — Pope Francis in Ireland Sunday “begged for God’s forgiveness” for the child sexual abuse scandal rocking the church but faced accusations by a former Vatican official that he had personally ignored allegations against senior clergy. Francis is due to speak in front of some 500,000 faithful in Dublin’s Phoenix Park as part of his two-day visit to the former Catholic stronghold […]
(Eagle News) — A former top Vatican official and former papal envoy to Washington called for the resignation of the Catholic Church’s Pope Francis saying he did not immediately act when he informed him of sexual abuses committed by a former Catholic cardinal, Theodore McCarrick, way back June 2013. This revelation and call for the Catholic pontiff’s resignation came from Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò who claimed in an 11-page letter-testimony that Francis even […]
OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada is pressing Catholic pope Francis to apologize to children who were plucked from indigenous communities and put in Catholic boarding schools where sexual abuse took place. Canadian MPs by a large majority passed a motion Tuesday asking the pontiff to apologize personally to Canadian aboriginal children who were torn from their families and sexually abused at residential schools. Voted in the House on Tuesday, 260 MPs voted in favor and […]
by Miguel Sanchez Agence France Presse Santiago, Chile (AFP) — Pope Francis arrives in Santiago on Monday at the beginning of a testing weeklong visit to Chile and Peru that aims to boost a flagging local Church hit by child sex abuse scandals. The pope is scheduled to arrive in Santiago at 8:10 pm (2310 GMT) on his first visit to Chile since becoming pope, and his sixth to Latin America. The 81-year-old Argentine […]
