In the US, clergy abuse survivor Saviano lauded at funeral for courage
AP Phil Saviano was a clergy sex abuse survivor whose courage to go public and resolve to hold abusers and their enablers accountable inspired and strengthened survivors from around the world, his brother said at his funeral Mass on Friday. Saviano, who died Sunday at age 69 after a battle with gallbladder cancer, was remembered at St Denis Catholic […]
In the US, Phil Saviano, key clergy sex abuse whistleblower, dies at 69
Updated: 11.45am (AEDT)Boston, Massachusetts, USAP Phil Saviano, a clergy sex abuse survivor and whistleblower who played a pivotal role in exposing decades of predatory assaults by Roman Catholic priests in the United States, has died. He was 69. Saviano’s story figured prominently in the 2015 Oscar-winning film Spotlight about The Boston Globe’s investigation that revealed how scores […]
US: AS CATHOLIC SEX ABUSE INVESTIGATIONS BEGIN, QUESTIONS REMAIN
JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, reports…
New abuse report in hand, US Catholics and attorneys general map next moves
RNS When Pennsylvania officials unveiled a report this week detailing accusations that Catholic priests had sexually abused more than 1,000 children since the 1940s and that church officials shielded the abusers, the public outcry was swift. Some compared the document to The Boston Globe’s 2002 “Spotlight” investigation, which unearthed comparably horrifying allegations in Massachusetts. But two days […]