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- October 22, 2017
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Canonist warns Church oversight of troubled lay groups has ‘no teeth’
- Global Church
- August 12, 2017
Through the years the Vatican has developed strong rules and regulations to fight sex abuse in the clergy, but two recent sex abuse scandals in Catholic lay associations show that in these cases the Church is still very slow to respond and that often local bishops fail to exercise the necessary monitoring.
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Police report paints damning picture of ‘Archangel’ charged with abuse
- Global Church
- August 9, 2017
Members of a Catholic spiritual movement in Italy are rallying around their leader who’s facing charges of sexual abuse against girls, some as young as 11 years old, but a police pre-trial report obtained by Crux tells a different story, suggesting the lay leader of the movement routinely asked girls for sexual favors and even fined them for refusing to comply.
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