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Questions Arise About Priest From Pope's Old Diocese

(March 12) -- The fallout from the growing Catholic sex abuse scandals finally reached as far as the pope Friday when it was revealed that Benedict XVI knew a priest was a pedophile in 1980 but approved a stint in therapy that allowed him to continue in the ministry, where he remains today. Benedict was an archbishop in...

Vatican Faces Widening Sex Abuse Scandals

(March 9) -- Sexual abuse scandals mired the Catholic Church on Tuesday as inquiries in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands intensified and the Vatican digested allegations that the Mexican founder of one of the church's most favored sects sexually molested his illegitimate sons. The new revelations come less than a...

Pope Meets With Irish Bishops on Abuse Scandal

(Feb. 15) -- As the increasingly vocal survivors of Ireland's Catholic sexual abuse scandal wait for answers and apologies, Pope Benedict XVI began an unprecedented two-day summit with Ireland's bishops at the Vatican today. The Pope's direct involvement marks a milestone in a crisis that has deeply marred the Catholic...

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Banksy Commits 'Cardinal Sin' With New Work

The new work by Banksy is on display at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.

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Pope: Others Should Be Held To Same Abuse 'Standards'

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI told bishops from New York state that "all other institutions" in society should be held to the same "exacting standards" as the Roman Catholic Church in preventing and reporting sex abuse.

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Amnesty International Slams Irish Catholic Church On Abuse

The 430-page report, released Monday (Sept. 26), "reminds us that Irish children were subjected to treatment that would be horrifying if it were done to prisoners of war, never mind little boys and girls," said Ireland's Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald, in Dublin.

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Irish Government Releases 'Damning' Abuse Report

VATICAN CITY (RNS) A special commission sponsored by the Irish government criticized a bishop for failing to report allegations of clerical sex abuse to police and noted "concerns" about the same bishop's own interactions with a teenage boy.

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Catholic Bishops To Take Second Look At Abuse Reforms

(RNS) A review of church sex abuse guidelines will top the agenda when the nation's Roman Catholic bishops meet in Seattle next week (June 15-17).

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10/14/11 Newspaper set to release Catholic survey Source: NBC - Action News KHSB - Kansas City MO It is one of the first publications credited with writing about sex abuse cases within the Catholic Church.
08/22/11 St. Paul attorney releases Vatican documents in sex... Source: Minnesota Public Radio - Saint Paul MN St. Paul attorney Jeffrey Anderson has released thousands of pages of documents that the Vatican turned over in response to a lawsuit alleging the Church covered up a decades-old case of sex abuse by an Oregon priest.
10/09/10 Push to make Mary 'Patron Saint' of abuse victims Source: ABC News - Australia There are calls for Mary MacKillop to be recognised as the "Patron Saint" of church sex-abuse victims.