Italian Catholic Church’s limited sexual abuse investigation disappoints victims
Rome, ItalyReuters Italy’s Catholic bishops said on Friday they would commission a report on clerical sexual abuse in the past two years and a separate analysis going back to 2000, disappointing victims who wanted a thorough investigation going back many decades. Earlier on Friday, victim groups held a small protest near the Vatican embassy to […]
New Italian church head faces demands for abuse inquiry
Vatican CityAP Pope Francis on Tuesday named a bishop in his own image, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, as the new head of the Italian bishops conference, as the Italian Catholic Church comes under mounting pressure to confront its legacy of clerical sexual abuse with an independent inquiry. Francis’ widely expected choice was announced during the second […]
Protecting children: Italy’s Catholic Church at crossroads over sexual abuse investigation
ANGELO AMANTE and PHILIP PULLELLA, of Reuters, report on how the Catholic Church in Italy’s response to the issue of the sexual abuse of children…
#ItalyChurchToo: Abuse survivors demand Italy church inquiry
Rome, Italy AP Advocates for victims of sex abuse by Italian clergy launched a campaign Tuesday to demand a cover-up inquiry, lamenting that deference showed the Catholic Church hierarchy in Italy has conditioned everything from criminal prosecutions to media coverage of the problem. A consortium of groups said they hoped recent national inquiries in Germany […]
Italy’s Catholic Church faces pressure for independent abuse inquiry; One of first official reports on abuse published in Spain
Rome, ItalyReuters At a trial under way in Sicily, a 28-year-old Italian is seeking justice against a man he accuses of forcing him to perform sex acts before going on to become a priest. The victim says the alleged abuse, committed more than a decade ago when he was a minor and the accused was […]