English cardinal calls for legislation tackling 'extremism'
- Feb 24, 2021
We witnessed a potential watershed moment this week for financial reform in the Vatican when a longtime former president of the Vatican Bank, along with the bank’s lawyer, were sentenced to eight years and 11 months in jail for their roles in a $70 million fraud.
“Accountability,” in the full American sense of the word, is finally crossing the Tiber in the Pope Francis era.
More than 50 accused priests have been able to continue in ministry in another country, including work with minors, according to a new report.
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a former Roman Catholic bishop must answer questions about the history of child sexual abuse in the Rochester diocese, despite protests from his lawyers that the cleric’s Alzheimer’s makes him unable to testify.
A new database lists nearly 6,000 names of priests accused of abuse.