More committees are not the answer to stop the abuse of children and vulnerable adults by clergy, said an Aug. 28 statement by the National Review Board, which is charged with addressing clerical sexual misconduct in the Catholic Church. “What needs to happen is a...
Strong support for a radical reform of the Irish Catholic Church is disclosed in a survey by the Association of Catholic Priests (ACP), in the run-up to Pope Francis’ visit to Ireland. The survey was conducted at four regional meetings held in July, on the ACP website...
A Filipina nun, who served India for 41 years, has returned to her native country. Sister Linda Gomez of Daughters of the Charity, a congregation founded by St Vincent De Paul, worked among the poor mostly in Odisha, eastern India, has returned to the Philippines....
Human right activists gathered at a busy junction in Ranchi on August 21 to protest the death of two infants who were “rescued” from a Missionaries of Charity centre by a Jharkhand government department. “The two children died of dehydration within six weeks of them...
Pope Francis’ call for fasting and prayer to atone for the sexual misdeeds of clergy has evoked angry responses from leading Catholic women in India who are demanding action to stem such crimes. The Aug. 20 papal letter asked for forgiveness for clerical abuse a week...
