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21 January 2020

Claims disgraced bishop failed to safeguard people in diocese

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Claims of a sex abuse cover-up and a failure to adequately protect women from sexual predation by a monk have surfaced in the diocese of di...

Stolen from their mother and abused, children of Garden Point mission lead charge for justice

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Maxine Kunde still has nightmares about what she endured as a child at the Garden Point mission on Melville Island, north of Darwin. "...

An abuse survivor's plea: Be open and honest with us

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When it comes to church officials and leaders of survivor peer-support-groups entering into agreements around reporting sexual abuse in chu...

Survivors Describe Rape, Assaults in Rare Look at U.S. Magdalene Laundries/Video, Live Discussion Sponsored by Janet, Janet & Suggs, LLC

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Two women who allege they were abused and assaulted as teens in homes run by Catholic nuns in the United States tell their stories in a doc...

Dead man’s estate files child sex abuse suit against nuns

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The estate administrator of a former Catholic school student has filed a child sex abuse lawsuit against the Sisters of Mercy, which operat...

Religious discrimination: Can human rights be ceded to organisations?

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Is there a legal or moral basis of the government's draft bill on religious freedom? I reread the Universal Declaration on Human Rights...

Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry will now focus on top boarding schools

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The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry was set up in October 2015 to “shine a light in the dark corners of the past”. It has the power to compel ...

Victim of Nazareth House nuns’ abuse breaks silence as she sues for £750,000

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Annemarie McGuigan has now spoken publicly of her ordeal for the first time. Ms McGuigan, from Renfrewshire, was taken to Nazareth House in...

The Married Catholic Priest in 2020

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After a careful examination of events, with great responsibility, we announce that this year, Pope Francis will let married priests join th...

Protection from spiritual abuse needed in safeguarding

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In the formation of leaders in the Church, the issue of “spiritual abuse” should be addressed as part of safeguarding policies, while humil...
15 August 2019

The Catholic Boys New Zealand

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The author of three books around the tough world of the SAS and infantry army, Mike Ledingham joins with two of his bothers to tell the sto...

Survivor backs push to lift veil on church child abuse secret deals

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A church abuse survivor has supported calls for religious groups to waive victims' secrecy obligations at Royal Commission hearings. A...

'A Momentous Time For Survivors.' Hundreds of Sex Abuse Lawsuits Anticipated Today After New York State Passes Child Victims Legislation

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It was the early 1950s and Peter Vajda was a boy attending a Catholic boarding school in the Bronx when he says a religious brother moleste...

Lawsuit: Man regrets not exposing priest in late '70s to prevent other kids from sex abuse

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A former Guam resident now living in California "extremely regrets" not exposing Father Raymond Cepeda in the late 1970s, which h...

Over 400 sex abuse suits filed in New York as litigation window opens

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The Roman Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, schools and hospitals, and the late financier Jeffrey Epstein are some of the targets named in a...