cover ups

Notorious French pedophile ex-priest appeals 5 year sentence for decades-long abuse against 75 boys

Notorious French pedophile ex-priest appeals 5 year sentence for decades-long abuse against 75 boys

Cardinal Barbarin

Pope accepts resignation of Barbarin, French cardinal accused of child abuse cover-ups

Former Irish president demands Vatican be held to account over abuse committed by 'saint' of the disabled Jean Vanier

Former Irish president demands Vatican be held to account over abuse committed by ‘saint’ of the disabled Jean Vanier

Vatican pointman on sex abuse, Archbishop of Malta Charles Scicluna

Vatican pointman on child abuse insists that with new papal initiatives “silence and cover-ups now a thing of the past”

Abuse in the Church in Ireland

Irish Church safeguarding head warns “much more to be done” in responding to abuse survivors

Abuse of power and sexual abuse in the Church

Experts in Dresden warn clerical abuse of power an “existential threat” to Church, call on faithful to “step up” demands for reform

Jean Vanier, Catholic 'saint' of the disabled

“Devastating”: Catholic ‘saint’ of the disabled accused of sex abuse of women

'Zero tolerance' for pedophile priests (stock)

Debate continues over Church will to implement “zero tolerance” policy for pedophile priests

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI

German TV accuses Benedict XVI of covering up for, meeting with pedophile priest

Church in Poland can't shake abuse negligence shadow

Church in Poland can’t shake abuse negligence shadow despite damage control on alleged pedophile bishop

French Church not cooperating fully with independent abuse inquiry - survivor

French Church not cooperating fully with independent abuse inquiry: survivor

Swiss bishop Charles Morerod flounders under cathedral priest sex abuse cover-up allegations

Swiss bishop flounders under cathedral priest sex abuse cover-up allegations

Polish bishop accused of sex abuse of girl (stock)

Vatican investigating serving Polish bishop for alleged abuse of 15-year-old girl

The Archbishop of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Stanislav Zore

Ljubljana archbishop passes buck on abuse, plays off care for pedophile priests against care for survivors

A priest in a confessional (stock)

French bishop still defending sacramental seal despite pedophile ex-priest admitting he confessed abuse, begged for help

Pedophile priest Bernard Preynat and Cardinal Philippe Barbarin

French pedophile ex-priest contradicts cover-up cardinal, says he confessed to him years before red hat claimed

Polish Bishops' President Stanislaw Gadecki insults abuse victims

Polish Bishops’ President covered up for, re-employed pedophile suspended from priesthood

Abuse in the Church (stock)

French historian: no fix to Church abuse crisis without fix to Church sexism

A priest celebrating the Eucharist (illustrative)

Murdered French priest abused father, son: “He shattered a whole family”

Belgian Salesian pedophile priest Luk Delft

African bishop claims Belgian Salesians “betrayed”, “deceived” local Church in pedophile priest cover-up

Pope Francis December 13 with abuse cover-up convicted French cardinal Philippe Barbarin

Pope reminds cover-up convicted Cardinal Barbarin that victims must be “understood, appreciated, respected and loved”

Convicted child abuse concealer Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon, France

Over 100,000 sign for resignation of convicted abuse concealer Cardinal Barbarin

A priest saying Mass (illustrative only)

Belgian Salesians point finger at courts after pedophile priest fiasco in Africa

Lyon cardinal Philippe Barbarin

As French cardinal appeals abuse cover-up conviction, his diocese wants to “turn the page”

The cross of sex abuse (stock)

French Church sex abuse investigation head warns number of complaints could reach 10,000

Lyon cardinal Philippe Barbarin

French cardinal convicted of pedophilia cover-up himself accused of seminarian harassment

The dome of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican

Altar boy sex abuse scandal explodes just steps from Pope’s door

Austrian cardinal Christoph Schönborn

Austrian cardinal deplores prevalence of abuse in conservative Catholic “new communities”

The French Bishops announce their sex abuse restitutions plan

French Bishops approve payouts to clergy abuse victims for Church “silence and negligence”

French Church abuse inquiry head Jean-Marc Sauvé

French Church sex abuse inquiry head blasts bishops for “clumsy” response to complaints