Cardinal Muller responds to Collins and defends not answering survivors' letters
Vatican: Cardinal Muller defends decision which led Marie Collins to resign from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.
Accountability
New Ulm diocese third in Minnesota to file for bankruptcy
Sexual abuse lawsuits: New Ulm diocese becomes 14th in nation to file for bankruptcy as a way of managing compensation to victims.
Editorial: Clergy culture sustains sex abuse scandal
We say: We are at a crucial point when it comes to the issue of clergy sex abuse. Yes, the buck stops with Pope Francis, but the burden is also on everyone inside the Vatican to address it.
Canadian files lawsuit, says Pius X Secular Institute ignored abuse
A $367,000 (US$274,000) lawsuit filed in Quebec Superior Court charged the Pius X Secular Institute and its officials of ignoring abuse that occurred on the institute grounds in Quebec City in the 1970s and 1980s.
Andre Lachance, 48, filed the suit claiming he was sexually abused by his uncle, Jean-Paul Lachance, a lay missionary and member of the institute. Andre Lachance, then a boy, claimed the abuse occurred when he was visiting his uncle, who committed suicide in 2014, after having been accused by two different plaintiffs of indecent exposure.
Vatican abuse commission expresses frustration to Australian panel
NCR Today: Days before Marie Collins' resignation, three members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors testified about resistance in Rome before the Australian Royal Commission.
Lone survivor on Vatican abuse commission resigns in frustration
Clergy sex abuse commission: Irishwoman Marie Collins says she has resigned because she has lost hope in Vatican cooperation with recommendations.
Priest arrested, charged with rape in Kerala after teen delivers child
Police in southern Kerala state arrested a 48-year-old priest and charged him with rape of a minor after a teen girl in his parish delivered a baby.
Civil rights activists alerted authorities, who questioned the girl, leading to the arrest of Syro-Malabar Father Robin Vadakkancheril, vicar of St Sebastian's Church in Kottiyoor.
The Mananthavady Diocese barred the accused priest from performing priestly duties. On Feb. 28, the Kerala Catholic Bishops' Council reiterated that the church has a "zero tolerance" policy on deviant sexual behavior of clergy.
Is Francis actually backsliding on punishing abuse?
Distinctly Catholic: In the clerical culture, being defrocked is the most severe penalty. But does cutting a priest abuser loose best serve the key objective — protecting children?
Mexican priest, first convicted of sexual abuse, gets 16 years in prison
A priest in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has been sentenced to 16 years and 6 months in prison for sexual abuse, marking the first ever conviction of a Catholic clergyman for such crimes in the country.
Father Gerardo Silvestre Hernandez, a priest in the Archdiocese of Antequera Oaxaca, was convicted in January of corrupting minors while serving as a priest in a remote indigenous village of Oaxaca. His sentence was made public Feb. 24, Mexican media reported.
Australian archbishops to ask Vatican for clarity on confession issues
Australia's five archbishops said they would consider asking the Vatican for clarification on concerns raised in a government inquiry into sexual abuse of children in the church.
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