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Child abuse and the Catholic church: is the Vatican still resisting reform?
A UN Committee say the Catholic church has proved itself neither capable nor willing to properly root out abuse.
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If you live in Belfast, do you look to London, or do you look to Dublin? Or maybe you look to both, or neither.
We were joined by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, who’s the Head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and Archbishop of Westminster.
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A court in Australia has convicted Cardinal George Pell, the third most powerful man in the Vatican, of sexually abusing two choirboys in Melbourne’s St Patrick’s Cathedral in 1996.
A conference on child abuse within the Catholic Church has ended at the Vatican, with Pope Francis describing clergy who abuse children as the ‘tools of Satan.’
Senior members of the Catholic clergy from around the world met for a second day today in the Vatican for a historic summit on child abuse. The summit was called by Pope Francis himself and is aimed at dealing with an issue which continues to plague the Church. Paraic O’Brien has spent the day with…
Catholic bishops from all over the world are gathering in Rome ahead of the Vatican’s first meeting to discuss child sexual abuse within the Church.
Irish survivors of Catholic abuse who held a private meeting with the Pope yesterday have said he appeared to have no knowledge of the notorious Magdalene Laundries, where women who had children outside marriage were locked up and their babies taken from them.
The last time a Pope visited Ireland, it was John Paul II in 1979. Almost half the population turned out to see him. Back then around nine out of ten Irish Catholics would attend weekly mass. Contraception, divorce and abortion were illegal. It will be a very different Ireland Pope Francis will visit this time. While there…
The findings of a Commission say the Church has an “unrepeatable chance to make things better” and calls for support for survivors of abuse to be an “absolute priority.”
The writer Colm Toibin says the Catholic church “has no moral authority to speak on civil matters” ahead of Ireland’s gay marriage referendum.
Allegations of sexual abuse at a Catholic seminary school in Yorkshire have surfaced this week, after a British man confronted a priest in Italy.
In a review of its teachings on the family and sexuality, Catholic bishops say gay people have “gifts and qualities to offer”. A sign the church is adopting a more welcoming attitude to homosexuality?
Do criticisms of the government’s welfare reforms by Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the country’s highest-ranking Catholic, represent a shift in the church’s position?
A UN Committee say the Catholic church has proved itself neither capable nor willing to properly root out abuse.