Wisconsin sexual abuse case against defrocked Cardinal McCarrick suspended
Madison, Wisconsin, US AP A Wisconsin judge suspended charges against defrocked Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, accused of sexually assaulting a boy in the 1970s, ruling last week that the former cleric is incompetent for trial because of dementia. The decision will be reviewed at the end of the year, according to court records. Former Washington Archbishop […]
Pope demands ‘concrete’ response to abuse crisis at Vatican summit
Vatican CityRNS Pope Francis on Thursday opened a highly anticipated four-day meeting on his church’s ongoing sex abuse crisis by calling on the assembled bishops and other Catholic leaders to “hear the cry of the little ones who plead for justice” and be “concrete.” “The holy People of God look to us, and expect from us […]