Pope likely to approve decision by Cardinal Brady to step down
Pope Francis is expected to accept the resignation of Cardinal Sean Brady as Primate of All Ireland in the coming months. Related Articles The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland wrote to the...
View ArticleCardinal Seán Brady confirms offering resignation to Pope
Catholic Primate of All Ireland, Cardinal Seán Brady, has confirmed that he offered his resignation to Pope Francis last month. In a statement Cardinal Brady said the offer to resign as Archbishop of...
View Article‘Monumental shift’ in Rome on clerical child sexual abuse issue
There ought to have been a sense of huge importance noted about Pope Francis’s first meeting with six survivors of clerical child sexual abuse in Rome on July 7th last. The survivors came from Ireland,...
View ArticlePope Francis promised to hold bishops accountable for abuse of minors
Pope Francis stunned the world when he promised to hold the bishops responsible for the horrid sexual abuse of minors accountable for their actions. He also begged the victims and their families for...
View ArticlePope Francis apologises to victims of clerical sexual abuse scandal and asks...
Pope Francis met victims of the clerical paedophilia scandal on Monday in an effort to help them – and answer critics who said he was failing to act decisively enough. It was the first time the...
View ArticlePope Francis meets with sexual abuse victims: Positive step or public...
After almost a year and half as pontiff, Pope Francis met for the time Monday with sexual abuse victims of clergy members of the Roman Catholic Church. It was the first time a pope has met with victims...
View ArticlePope Francis begs forgiveness in meeting with abuse victims
POPE Francis has begged forgiveness in his first meeting with Catholics sexually abused by members of the clergy and went further than any of his predecessors by vowing to hold bishops accountable for...
View ArticlePOPE MEETS WITH SEX-ABUSE VICTIMS
VATICAN CITY Pope Francis begged forgiveness Monday in his first meeting with Catholics sexually abused by members of the clergy and went further than any of his predecessors by vowing to hold...
View ArticlePope Francis begs forgiveness of sex abuse victims
Pope Francis met for the first time with victims of clerical sexual abuse on Monday and pledged that bishops who covered up such abuse of minors would be held accountable. Likening the abuse to a...
View ArticlePope: Bishops must be held accountable for abuse
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis begged forgiveness Monday in his first meeting with Catholics sexually abused by members of the clergy and went further than any of his predecessors by vowing to hold...
View ArticlePope: Bishops will be accountable for sex abuse
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis promised to hold bishops accountable for the protection of minors and begged forgiveness Monday from the victims of clergy sex abuse as he held his first meeting with...
View ArticleControversial figure Cardinal Law guest at lunch in Irish College in Rome
Patsy McGarry Religious Affairs Correspondent The former Cardinal Archbishop of Boston Bernard Law, who resigned from the post in 2002 amid allegations of cover-up in the handling of clerical child sex...
View ArticleCardinal Law guest at lunch in Irish College in Rome
The former Cardinal Archbishop of Boston Bernard Law, who resigned from the post in 2002 amid allegations of cover-up in the handling of clerical child sex abuse allegations, was one of the main guests...
View ArticleAbuse victim urges Pope to sack head of Catholic Church in Ireland Sean Brady...
A survivor of clerical sex abuse has asked the Pope to stand down the Archbishop of Armagh as the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland. Irish woman Marie Kane was one of six victims of abuse who...
View ArticleTaoiseach invites Pope Francis to Ireland
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has invited Pope Francis to visit Ireland. He also said this afternoon that the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Eamon Gilmore will bring the name of Ireland’s new...
View ArticlePope to meet six survivors of clerical sex abuse
Pope Francis is expected to meet six clerical sex abuse survivors in the Vatican this morning. In a meeting announced by the pope himself on the papal plane on the way back to Rome after his May...
View ArticleHistoric day in Vatican as Pope Francis asks forgiveness for clerical sex abuse
Pope Francis yesterday met with six clerical sex abuse survivors in a historic Vatican meeting, the first of this pontificate and one marked by the Argentinian pope’s now familiar compassionate...
View ArticlePope asks clerical abuse victims for forgiveness
Pope Francis this morning “humbly” asked six clerical sex abuse victims for forgiveness for the “grave crimes of clerical sex abuse” committed against them. The Pope made his comment to the victims in...
View ArticleA good day’s work as Pope Francis expresses sorrow for the sins and crimes of...
Monday last may yet turn out to be a most significant day in the Roman Catholic Church where clerical child sexual abuse is concerned. That morning Pope Francis received an intense education on the...
View ArticlePope told abuse survivors should be helped to avoid self-harm, suicide
The second Irish clerical child abuse survivor to meet Pope Francis this morning was Dubliner Mark Vincent Healy (54). The meeting lasted for approximately 45 minutes and the only other person present...
View ArticleIrish abuse victim tells Pope she wants Cardinal Brady removed
Clerical child abuse survivor Marie Kane (43) this morning asked Pope Francis to remove Cardinal Seán Brady as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland due to his handling of a clerical child...
View ArticlePope accepts resignation of head of scandal-plagued Irish church
ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, the Vatican said on Monday, drawing a line under a career plagued by accusations that he...
View ArticlePope Francis accepts resignation of Cardinal Seán Brady
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Seán Brady as Archbishop of Armagh and Catholic Primate of All Ireland. Coadjutor Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin automatically succeeds to both...
View ArticlePope begs forgiveness for 'sacrilegious cult' of Church sexual abuse
Pope Francis told victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clerics the Church should "weep and make reparation" for crimes he said had taken on the dimensions of a sacrilegious cult. "For some time...
View ArticlePope begs forgiveness for Church sexual abuse
Pope Francis told victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clerics the Church should "weep and make reparation" for crimes he said had taken on the dimensions of a sacrilegious cult. "For some time...
View ArticleChurch officials welcome plan to reopen Irish Vatican Embassy
The announcement that the Government intends to reopen the Irish Embassy to the Holy See in Rome has been greeted with immediate satisfaction by Vatican officials. One senior Vatican figure said the...
View ArticlePope begs forgiveness of abuse victims
Pope Francis has begged for forgiveness in his first meeting with Catholics sexually abused by members of the clergy and gone further than any of his predecessors by vowing to hold bishops accountable...
View ArticlePope Francis meets sex-abuse victims, promises accountability
Pope Francis met for the first time with victims of clerical sexual abuse on Monday and pledged that bishops who covered up such abuse of minors would be held accountable. Likening the abuse to a...
View ArticleVatican body stresses ‘moral responsibility’ to report abuse
The Vatican’s commission for the protection of minors has issued a strongly worded statement emphasising that there is a “moral and ethical responsibility” on relevant church authorities and others to...
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