Juan Carlos Cruz Archives

A can’t-miss moment on the abuse crisis looms under the Golden Dome

News Analysis
Sep 8, 2019

An important Notre Dame series on the clerical abuse scandals kicks off Wednesday, Sept. 25, with a panel titled “The Church Crisis: Where Are We Now?”, to be held on the ND campus and livestreamed on the university web site as well as on Crux.

Abuse survivors in Chile blast deal between Church and prosecutor

Church in the Americas
May 4, 2019

Clerical sexual abuse survivors in Chile are blasting a new deal between the Church and the prosecutor’s office.

Chile court orders Church to compensate clerical abuse victims

Church in the Americas
Mar 27, 2019

An appeals court in Chile Wednesday awarded three clerical abuse victims roughly $150,000 each after finding the Church guilty of covering up.

Abuse survivors and outspoken critics meet organizers of pope’s summit

February abuse summit
Feb 20, 2019

Roughly a dozen abuse survivors representing some of the world’s most outspoken advocacy groups met organizers of Pope Francis’s anti-abuse summit Wednesday.

Sex abuse survivors to meet with Vatican summit organizers

Associated Press, February abuse summit, Vatican
Feb 18, 2019

The organizers of Pope Francis’s summit on preventing clergy sex abuse will meet this week with a dozen abuse victims who have descended on Rome to protest the Catholic Church’s response to the crisis and demand an end to decades of cover-up by church leaders, officials said Monday.

Abuse cover-up investigation of Chilean cardinal to continue

Church in the Americas
Jan 31, 2019

An investigation of the Archbishop of Santiago over charges that he failed to respond appropriately when he found out about allegations of sexual abuse against clergy in his archdiocese will continue, a Chilean court ruled on Wednesday.