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Bishops, other clergymen must save child victims and jail abusive priests
08 Feb 2025 16:32 GMT
… the abuse and their parents file charges against the priest-perpetrator. The Church … , credible allegations of child abuse to the Vatican. If a bishop does not act … the Church.
This applies to the Archdiocese of Cebu, where several priests …
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Regnum Christi announces Vatican approval of its statutes
07 Feb 2025 17:33 GMT
… Vatican for having sexually abused boys in his seminaries and fathering children … greater autonomy from the priests of the Legionaries of … established in 2019 with Vatican approval "ad … Directive College said the Vatican approval "represents a …
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Italy Church Abuse Group Highlights Toll On Families
07 Feb 2025 15:46 GMT
… paedophile priests going back decades.
But campaigners say Italy, where the Vatican … ; Families" group, parents of children abused shared heartbreaking stories -- of … suspicions of sexual assault to Church authorities.
Victims' rights groups …
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Pope Francis announces the preparation of a text dedicated to children
05 Feb 2025 11:51 GMT
… Exhortation dedicated to children,” Pope Francis … Protection of Children, which the Vatican hosted February … children exploited, wounded, and humiliated by war, labor, or abuse … church, I intend to prepare an apostolic Exhortation dedicated to children …
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Pope leads global summit on defending children’s rights
05 Feb 2025 03:52 GMT
… speeches by Pope Francis and Vatican Secretary of State Italian Cardinal … in the forms of trafficking, child labor, abuse and compulsory marriages.
There … commitment (to children) and to promote it throughout the Church.”
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Pope Francis: 'Nothing is worth the life of a child'
05 Feb 2025 01:06 GMT
… dedicated to children to “give continuity to this commitment”.
Vatican City (AsiaNews … 160 million children who are victims of forced labour, trafficking, abuse and … Holy Year that the Catholic Church is celebrating. For this reason …
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Pope at summit on children’s rights: tough on abortion and child exploitation, announces exhortation on childhood
05 Feb 2025 00:40 GMT
… on the Rights of Children, held in Vatican City on Monday, … and promote it throughout the Church, I intend to prepare … sixty million children are victims of forced labour, trafficking, abuse and … protection, they can easily be abused or sold as slaves. …
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Pope Francis opens Vatican Summit on Children’s Rights
03 Feb 2025 21:53 GMT
… optimism and confidence,” the Bishop of Rome stressed as … more than forty million children have been displaced by … child slavery: some 160 million children are victims of forced labor, trafficking, abuse … takes place in the Vatican Museums this Monday. There …
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Pope Francis reveals some secrets — and keeps many others — in new memoir
08 Feb 2025 12:22 GMT
… compassion of clergy abuse survivors, Hope ignores Vatican resistance against his … Aires, seeking return of their children. In 1977, " … French nuns and a priest who suffered torture and death … shadows [that] hung over the Church itself" — deeply split …
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Week in Review | Feb. 7, 2025
07 Feb 2025 23:58 GMT
… ’s Lourdes Novena for Healing. Bishop Thomas Daly, who witnessed the … group launches Philippine database on abuse; cardinal reiterates need for accountability … cosmos VATICAN SUMMIT: Pope will prepare papal document to help church promote children …