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French Prime Minister Meets Pope As Abuse Scandal Rages
French Prime Minister Jean Castex met Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday as the French Catholic Church battles a storm over clerical child sex abuse and the sanctity of confession.
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Pope Francis Changes Church Law Makes Reporting Sex Abuse Obligatory
Pope Francis on Thursday passed a measure to oblige those who know about sex abuse in the Catholic Church to report it to their superiors, following a global clerical pedophilia scandal.
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Pope Francis Remains Silent On Claim That He Ignored Abuse
Pope Francis has declined to comment on a growing scandal after a former Vatican official claimed the pontiff ignored sexual abuse allegations against a senior clergyman and called on him to resign.
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Pope Francis "Begs For God's Forgiveness" For Church Sexual Abuse Scandal
Pope Francis in Ireland Sunday "begged for God's forgiveness" for the child sexual abuse scandal rocking the church but faced accusations by a former Vatican official that he had personally ignored allegations against senior clergy.
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Pope Francis Accepts Resignation Of Three Chilean Bishops: Vatican
Pope Francis has accepted the resignations of three Chilean bishops following sex abuse scandals, including Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno, the city at the centre of the uproar, the Vatican said on Monday.
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Australian Cardinal Won't Quit Over Catholic Abuse Scandal
Australian Cardinal George Pell said in an interview with Sky News he will not resign from his position as the Vatican's finance chief over the Catholic Church's responses to child sex abuse in his homeland.
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Pope Francis Meets Victims of Clergy Sex Abuse, Says 'God Weeps' for Them
Pope Francis has met victims of clergy sex abuse and vowed to hold responsible all involved in abuse and cover-ups, he said in Philadelphia on Sunday, the last day of his first visit to the United States.
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Crimes of Sexual Abuse Shouldn't be Repeated: Pope Francis
Pope Francis today told US Roman Catholic bishops that crimes of sexual abuse of minors by clergy should never be repeated, acknowledging the damage caused by years of scandal in the US Catholic Church.
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Archbishop Accused of Child Sex Abuse Died of Heart Problems: Autopsy
Initial autopsy results indicate that a former Polish archbishop who would have been the first high-ranking Catholic Church official to go on trial for child sex abuse died of natural causes linked to heart problems, the Vatican said today.
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Ex-Vatican Archibishop Hospitalised Ahead of Child Abuse Trial
A former archbishop and papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic fell ill and was taken to hospital ahead of the opening of his trial today for alleged child sex offences, a Vatican official said.
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Former Vatican Archbishop to be Tried in Child Abuse Case Today
Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic, will go on trial, today, accused of child sex offences in a case seen as a test of Pope Francis's drive to clean up the church.
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Vatican Orders Former Archbishop to Stand Trial For Sex Abuse
A Vatican prosecutor on Monday ordered a former Roman Catholic archbishop accused of paying for sex with children when he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic and of possessing child pornographic material to stand trial.
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New Pope had one lung removed during childhood
The new pope has daunting challenges ahead ranging from the church sex abuse scandal to reinvigorating the flock.
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Sex abuse: scandal the Catholic Church cannot shake
Colm O'Gorman was 14 years old when Father Sean Fortune arrived unannounced at his parents' house in a small town in southern Ireland. The priest was given tea and a seat by the fire, and asked the teenager to help set up a youth group.
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Vatican praised for handling of sex scandals
The Vatican has handled damaging child abuse cases in an "exemplary" manner, the editor of the Vatican newspaper said today, fending off widespread criticism over mushrooming paedophilia scandals.
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French Prime Minister Meets Pope As Abuse Scandal Rages
French Prime Minister Jean Castex met Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday as the French Catholic Church battles a storm over clerical child sex abuse and the sanctity of confession.
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Pope Francis Changes Church Law Makes Reporting Sex Abuse Obligatory
Pope Francis on Thursday passed a measure to oblige those who know about sex abuse in the Catholic Church to report it to their superiors, following a global clerical pedophilia scandal.
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Pope Francis Remains Silent On Claim That He Ignored Abuse
Pope Francis has declined to comment on a growing scandal after a former Vatican official claimed the pontiff ignored sexual abuse allegations against a senior clergyman and called on him to resign.
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Pope Francis "Begs For God's Forgiveness" For Church Sexual Abuse Scandal
Pope Francis in Ireland Sunday "begged for God's forgiveness" for the child sexual abuse scandal rocking the church but faced accusations by a former Vatican official that he had personally ignored allegations against senior clergy.
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Pope Francis Accepts Resignation Of Three Chilean Bishops: Vatican
Pope Francis has accepted the resignations of three Chilean bishops following sex abuse scandals, including Bishop Juan Barros of Osorno, the city at the centre of the uproar, the Vatican said on Monday.
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Australian Cardinal Won't Quit Over Catholic Abuse Scandal
Australian Cardinal George Pell said in an interview with Sky News he will not resign from his position as the Vatican's finance chief over the Catholic Church's responses to child sex abuse in his homeland.
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Pope Francis Meets Victims of Clergy Sex Abuse, Says 'God Weeps' for Them
Pope Francis has met victims of clergy sex abuse and vowed to hold responsible all involved in abuse and cover-ups, he said in Philadelphia on Sunday, the last day of his first visit to the United States.
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Crimes of Sexual Abuse Shouldn't be Repeated: Pope Francis
Pope Francis today told US Roman Catholic bishops that crimes of sexual abuse of minors by clergy should never be repeated, acknowledging the damage caused by years of scandal in the US Catholic Church.
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Archbishop Accused of Child Sex Abuse Died of Heart Problems: Autopsy
Initial autopsy results indicate that a former Polish archbishop who would have been the first high-ranking Catholic Church official to go on trial for child sex abuse died of natural causes linked to heart problems, the Vatican said today.
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Ex-Vatican Archibishop Hospitalised Ahead of Child Abuse Trial
A former archbishop and papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic fell ill and was taken to hospital ahead of the opening of his trial today for alleged child sex offences, a Vatican official said.
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Former Vatican Archbishop to be Tried in Child Abuse Case Today
Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop and papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic, will go on trial, today, accused of child sex offences in a case seen as a test of Pope Francis's drive to clean up the church.
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Vatican Orders Former Archbishop to Stand Trial For Sex Abuse
A Vatican prosecutor on Monday ordered a former Roman Catholic archbishop accused of paying for sex with children when he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic and of possessing child pornographic material to stand trial.
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New Pope had one lung removed during childhood
The new pope has daunting challenges ahead ranging from the church sex abuse scandal to reinvigorating the flock.
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Sex abuse: scandal the Catholic Church cannot shake
Colm O'Gorman was 14 years old when Father Sean Fortune arrived unannounced at his parents' house in a small town in southern Ireland. The priest was given tea and a seat by the fire, and asked the teenager to help set up a youth group.
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Vatican praised for handling of sex scandals
The Vatican has handled damaging child abuse cases in an "exemplary" manner, the editor of the Vatican newspaper said today, fending off widespread criticism over mushrooming paedophilia scandals.
