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Portugal Catholic Clergy Sexually Abused Close To 5,000 Minors: Report
Catholic clergy in Portugal have abused nearly 5,000 children since 1950, an independent commission said on Monday after hearing hundreds of victims' accounts.
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"Zero Tolerance": Pope Francis On Sexual Assault By Members Of The Clergy
The Catholic Church must show "zero tolerance" to sexual assault by members of the clergy, Pope Francis said in excerpts of an interview with a Portuguese television channel broadcast Sunday.
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French Bishops Kneel In Penance For Decades Of Child Sex Abuse By Church
Senior members of France's Catholic hierarchy knelt in a show of penance at the shrine of Lourdes Saturday, a day after bishops accepted the church's responsibility for decades of child abuse.
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Pope Expresses "Shame" After Damning Church Sex Abuse Report
Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed his "shame" at the sexual abuse of children by French Catholic clergy, laid bare in a devastating report this week.
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Pope Expresses "Great Sorrow" For Sexual Abuse Victims Of French Clergy
Pope Francis expressed his "great sorrow" for the victims of sexual abuse by French Catholic clergy after the publication on Tuesday of a devastating report, a Vatican spokesman said.
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French Bishops Seek Forgiveness After Damning Church Sex Abuse Report
French clergy have sexually abused more than 200,000 children over the past 70 years, a major investigation released on Tuesday found, and its authors accused the Catholic Church of turning a blind eye for too long and urged it to reform.
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Report On Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Finds Hundreds Of Cases In Germany
An independent study commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church uncovered hundreds of cases of sexual violence allegedly committed by clergy and laymen in Germany's top diocese, its authors said Thursday.
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French Bishops Vote To Offer Payments To Survivors Of Sex Abuse By Clergy
French bishops voted on Saturday in favour of a plan to offer payments to people who were sexually abused as children by members of the Catholic clergy.
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Chicago Catholic Church Paid $80 Million To Sex Abuse Survivors, Say Lawyers
A victim of clergy abuse urged other survivors to come forward Tuesday as lawyers revealed that the Catholic Church in Chicago had paid out more than $80 million in sexual assault cases.
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Be Celibate Or Leave The Priesthood, Pope Francis Tells Gay Priests
Men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be admitted to the Catholic clergy, and it would be better for priests who are actively gay to leave rather than lead a double life, Pope Francis says in a new book.
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A Broadband Church? Vatican Expert Urges Priests to Get Online
Monsignor Paul Tighe, who helped develop Pope Francis' online presence, urged Catholic clergy across the world to embrace social media to reach believers and non-believers.
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Amid Global Crisis, Sex Abuse Claims Rock Dutch Catholic Church
More than half of the Netherlands' senior clerics were involved in covering up sexual assault of children between 1945 and 2010, a press report claimed Saturday, further engulfing the Catholic Church in a global abuse scandal.
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Pope Francis Orders Investigation Of US Bishop After Church Leaders Meet
Pope Francis has ordered an investigation of an American bishop accused of sexual misconduct with adults and accepted his resignation, the Vatican and U.S. Church officials said on Thursday.
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Pope Francis Meets With US Church Leaders Over Clergy Sex Abuse
Pope Francis was set to host US bishops and cardinals on Thursday to discuss the Vatican's response to a new wave of devastating claims of sexual abuse by clergy.
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Pope Vows No More Cover Ups In Letter To All Catholics On Sexual Abuse
Pope Francis, facing simultaneous clergy sexual abuse crises in several countries, on Monday wrote an unprecedented letter to all the world's Catholics asking each of them to help uproot "this culture of death".
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Portugal Catholic Clergy Sexually Abused Close To 5,000 Minors: Report
Catholic clergy in Portugal have abused nearly 5,000 children since 1950, an independent commission said on Monday after hearing hundreds of victims' accounts.
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"Zero Tolerance": Pope Francis On Sexual Assault By Members Of The Clergy
The Catholic Church must show "zero tolerance" to sexual assault by members of the clergy, Pope Francis said in excerpts of an interview with a Portuguese television channel broadcast Sunday.
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French Bishops Kneel In Penance For Decades Of Child Sex Abuse By Church
Senior members of France's Catholic hierarchy knelt in a show of penance at the shrine of Lourdes Saturday, a day after bishops accepted the church's responsibility for decades of child abuse.
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Pope Expresses "Shame" After Damning Church Sex Abuse Report
Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed his "shame" at the sexual abuse of children by French Catholic clergy, laid bare in a devastating report this week.
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Pope Expresses "Great Sorrow" For Sexual Abuse Victims Of French Clergy
Pope Francis expressed his "great sorrow" for the victims of sexual abuse by French Catholic clergy after the publication on Tuesday of a devastating report, a Vatican spokesman said.
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French Bishops Seek Forgiveness After Damning Church Sex Abuse Report
French clergy have sexually abused more than 200,000 children over the past 70 years, a major investigation released on Tuesday found, and its authors accused the Catholic Church of turning a blind eye for too long and urged it to reform.
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Report On Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Finds Hundreds Of Cases In Germany
An independent study commissioned by the Roman Catholic Church uncovered hundreds of cases of sexual violence allegedly committed by clergy and laymen in Germany's top diocese, its authors said Thursday.
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French Bishops Vote To Offer Payments To Survivors Of Sex Abuse By Clergy
French bishops voted on Saturday in favour of a plan to offer payments to people who were sexually abused as children by members of the Catholic clergy.
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Chicago Catholic Church Paid $80 Million To Sex Abuse Survivors, Say Lawyers
A victim of clergy abuse urged other survivors to come forward Tuesday as lawyers revealed that the Catholic Church in Chicago had paid out more than $80 million in sexual assault cases.
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Be Celibate Or Leave The Priesthood, Pope Francis Tells Gay Priests
Men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be admitted to the Catholic clergy, and it would be better for priests who are actively gay to leave rather than lead a double life, Pope Francis says in a new book.
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A Broadband Church? Vatican Expert Urges Priests to Get Online
Monsignor Paul Tighe, who helped develop Pope Francis' online presence, urged Catholic clergy across the world to embrace social media to reach believers and non-believers.
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Amid Global Crisis, Sex Abuse Claims Rock Dutch Catholic Church
More than half of the Netherlands' senior clerics were involved in covering up sexual assault of children between 1945 and 2010, a press report claimed Saturday, further engulfing the Catholic Church in a global abuse scandal.
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Pope Francis Orders Investigation Of US Bishop After Church Leaders Meet
Pope Francis has ordered an investigation of an American bishop accused of sexual misconduct with adults and accepted his resignation, the Vatican and U.S. Church officials said on Thursday.
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Pope Francis Meets With US Church Leaders Over Clergy Sex Abuse
Pope Francis was set to host US bishops and cardinals on Thursday to discuss the Vatican's response to a new wave of devastating claims of sexual abuse by clergy.
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Pope Vows No More Cover Ups In Letter To All Catholics On Sexual Abuse
Pope Francis, facing simultaneous clergy sexual abuse crises in several countries, on Monday wrote an unprecedented letter to all the world's Catholics asking each of them to help uproot "this culture of death".
