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| Pope Francis |
Clergy sex abuse, especially against children, is present in all the continents of the world. A section of the Catholic priests, forgetting their life of sexual chastity, engage in this heinous crime causing irreparable moral, mental and psychological damage to the underage boys and girls. The Catholic Church as a whole failed miserably in taking action against the guilty priests as well as in providing moral, psychological, and other support to their victims. Now Pope Francis is trying to do more in this field than his predecessors.
For more details and background, please read the following:
- Pope issues motu proprio on removal of Bishops (June 4, 2016)
- Negligence in abuse cases enough to oust a bishop, Pope says (June 4, 2016)
- Pope Defines Process for Removing Bishops for Negligence in Abuse Cases (June 4, 2016)
- Pope issues plan for removing bishops who fail to act on sex abuse (June 4, 2016)
- Francis gives Vatican authority to initiate removal of bishops negligent on sexual abuse (June 4, 2016)
- Pope clarifies bishops' role in sex abuse cases (June 4, 2016)
- Pope Francis approves papal decree to remove bishops who failed to deal with sexual abuse (June 4, 2016)
- Pope Francis scraps abuse tribunal for bishops (June 4, 2016)
- Pope details steps to remove 'negligent' bishops (June 6, 2016)
- National Catholic Reporter Editorial: New law for bishops raises many questions (June 10, 2016)
- Extending the statute of limitations (June 16, 2016)
- Pope calls bishops' negligence a crime: this is important (June 17, 2016)
- What's the State of the Church's Child Abuse Crisis? (February 25, 2014)
- Is the pope serious about confronting child abuse? (February 15, 2016)
- US Catholic Church has spent millions fighting clergy sex abuse accountability (Mary 12, 2016)
- What the Church has done about sex abuse (March 4, 2016)
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