Experts call for Vatican judicial reforms to promote transparency and a fair trial
Vatican City RNS Two decades after the Vatican was first forced to reckon with the clerical sexual abuse crisis, church experts on Thursday addressed the institution’s failures to safeguard victims, promote transparency and guarantee a safe trial. For years, sexual abuse victims lamented that church trials under canon law fail to inform them about not […]
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 […]