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Poland becomes Europe’s testing ground for best practices on abuse
- Church in Europe
- Jun 17, 2019
Archbishop Charles Scicluna met with the Polish episcopacy to discuss what is happening with sex abuse and the Polish Church.
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Pope’s new anti-sex abuse vague on lay leaders, movements
- Vatican
- May 10, 2019
Though a new set of norms from Pope Francis on the handling of abuse cases and cover-up has been hailed as an important step in the right direction, the Vatican’s oversight of lay movements is still unclear, a point reflected in the fact that when two of the Church’s leading experts were asked about it Tuesday, they gave slightly contrasting responses.
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Pope’s end to anti-abuse summit Sunday disappoints survivors
- February abuse summit
- Feb 24, 2019
Survivors didn’t appreciate Pope Francis’s closing speech on Sunday at his Feb. 21-24 summit on clerical sexual abuse.
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Survivors blast pope’s ‘reflection points’ on abuse as less than zero tolerance
- February abuse summit
- Feb 21, 2019
As part of Pope Francis’s high-stakes summit on clerical sexual abuse happening at the Vatican, in Thursday’s opening session he released a list of 21 reflection points that did not necessarily sit well with survivors who say they fall short of the Catholic Church’s pledge of zero tolerance.
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Priest’s son demands Vatican attention for clergy’s children
- Associated Press, Church in UK and Ireland
- Feb 21, 2019
The head organizer of the Vatican’s sex abuse summit has met with an Irish activist who is seeking to draw attention to another issue the Vatican has long sought to keep quiet: the plight of children of priests.
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Cupich says aim of Vatican summit is for victims’ voices to be heard
- February abuse summit
- Feb 18, 2019
Ahead of a high-profile summit of top bishops from around the world to address the clerical sexual abuse crisis that opens on Thursday, one of the event’s key organizers said Monday one primary aim is to make sure that the perspective of children exposed to abuse is part of the Church’s efforts at reform.
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