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- Jun 1, 2020
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On summit anniversary, what we still don’t know about clerical abuse
- Feb 21, 2020
What’s striking one year after Pope Francis’s historic clerical sex abuse summit is how much still isn’t understood.
Summit drives home that clerical sexual abuse is a global problem
- Feb 25, 2019
Though Pope Francis’s high stakes anti-abuse summit has not yet yielded any major policy moves, one message was clear throughout the four-day gathering: the problem of child sexual abuse is a global one, and no one can leave thinking it’s not a concern in their own backyard.
February abuse summit will have to navigate waters of a global church
- Nov 25, 2018
A major challenge the planning committee for Pope Francis’s Feb. 21-24 summit on sex abuse will face is taking account of differing instincts inside a global Church.
Understanding why the Synod of Bishops blinked on ‘zero tolerance’
- Oct 30, 2018
For Americans and Catholics from other places scarred by clerical sexual abuse scandals, it’s almost incomprehensible that a global summit of bishops could pull back from endorsing a policy of “zero tolerance.”
Peru scandal showcases need for oversight of lay movements
- Aug 6, 2018
Among other take-aways, the case of Luis Fernando Figari and his Sodalitium Christianae Vitae illustrate the need for lay movements to get the same oversight as dioceses and religious orders.
Chilean cardinal may be next test for Pope on sex abuse reform
- Aug 1, 2018
In part one of a three-part series, Elise Harris examines the rise to power of Chilean Cardinal Francisco Errazuriz and why he may be the next test Pope Francis faces in terms of accountability for clerical sexual abuse.
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