Retired Catholic bishop charged with sexual offenses in northwest Australia
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Retired Catholic bishop charged with sexual offenses in northwest Australia

Associated Press  

MELBOURNE, Australia — A retired Catholic bishop has been charged with sexual offenses including child abuse in a remote part of Australia’s northwest. Christopher Saunders, 74, will appear in the Broome Magistrates Court on Thursday in the heart of the sprawling Outback diocese where he had actively served as a cleric for 45 years, a police statement said. That investigation became public knowledge last year when an Australian television news network reported the contents of a 200-page Vatican report on Saunders. Also in 2018, a judge quashed former Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson’s conviction for covering up child sexual abuse by a pedophile priest in the 1970s in New South Wales state.

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Vatican shares investigation into child abuse allegations against an Australian bishop with police
1 year, 3 months ago

Vatican shares investigation into child abuse allegations against an Australian bishop with police

Associated Press  

CANBERRA, Australia — The Vatican had shared with police findings of an internal investigation of a former Australian bishop over child sex abuse allegations and the church would fully cooperate with criminal investigators, a cleric said on Friday. The Catholic Church announced the handover of its investigation report into former Bishop Christopher Saunders three days after the Western Australia Police …

Vatican under pressure to release report detailing Bishop Christopher Saunders sexual misconduct allegations
1 year, 3 months ago

Vatican under pressure to release report detailing Bishop Christopher Saunders sexual misconduct allegations

ABC  

Police say they are considering a criminal investigation into a West Australian Catholic bishop accused of sexual misconduct, in light of a leaked Vatican report that levels serious allegations against him. Key points: Catholic Bishop Christopher Saunders has been accused of sexual misconduct in a Vatican report Leaked extracts allege the Bishop committed sexual abuse, financial misconduct Police and the …

Vatican considers child sexual abuse allegations against a former Australian bishop
1 year, 3 months ago

Vatican considers child sexual abuse allegations against a former Australian bishop

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The Vatican is considering the …

Vatican considers child sexual abuse allegations against a former Australian bishop
1 year, 3 months ago

Vatican considers child sexual abuse allegations against a former Australian bishop

Associated Press  

CANBERRA, Australia — The Vatican is considering the findings of a church investigation into “very serious and deeply distressing” child sexual abuse allegations against a former Australian bishop, a church leader said on Tuesday. The church investigation into Saunders began last year after the police investigation ended, said Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, the …

Civil case over Cardinal Pell abuse allegations allowed to proceed against church in Australia
1 year, 4 months ago

Civil case over Cardinal Pell abuse allegations allowed to proceed against church in Australia

Associated Press  

CANBERRA, Australia — An Australian court on Friday allowed a civil case to proceed against a Catholic archdiocese involving child sex abuse allegations against late Cardinal George Pell. The Victoria state Court of Appeal in Melbourne refused to hear the church’s challenge to a judge’s ruling that a father, identified in court documents as RWQ, was entitled to sue for …

The global scale of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church
3 years, 3 months ago

The global scale of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church

Al Jazeera  

A series of abuse scandals, often involving children, have rocked the Catholic Church in recent decades. The Catholic Church has been repeatedly rocked by child sexual abuse scandals over the last three decades. An independent inquiry on Tuesday said it had concluded there were about 216,000 victims of sexual abuse carried out by the French Catholic Church’s clergy between 1950 …

Australian court upholds conviction of Cardinal George Pell in child sex abuse case
5 years, 4 months ago

Australian court upholds conviction of Cardinal George Pell in child sex abuse case

The Hindu  

An Australian appeals court by a 2-1 ruling Wednesday upheld convictions against Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of sexually abusing children. The Victoria state Court of Appeal rejected Pell’s appeal of the unanimous verdicts a jury had issued in December finding Pope Francis’ former finance minister guilty of molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in Melbourne’s …

Australian Cardinal jailed for 6 years for sexually abusing choirboys
5 years, 9 months ago

Australian Cardinal jailed for 6 years for sexually abusing choirboys

Deccan Chronicle  

Melbourne: Disgraced Australian Cardinal George Pell was on Wednesday sentenced to six years in prison for sexually abusing two choirboys, in what the judge lambasted as a "brazen" attack and "grave" abuse of power. The 77-year old -- wearing a black shirt but without his usual white clerical collar -- sat impassively, hands interlaced on his lap as Judge Peter …

Australian Cardinal found guilty of child sex abuse
5 years, 10 months ago

Australian Cardinal found guilty of child sex abuse

The Hindu  

An Australian court has found Cardinal George Pell, one of the highest ranking Vatican officials and a former top adviser to Pope Francis, guilty on five charges of child sexual offences committed more than two decades ago against 13-year-old boys. The verdict was made public on Tuesday following the lifting of a court suppression order on the trial, after a …

Australia’s Cardinal George Pell convicted of child sexual abuse amid increasing complaints of misconduct against clergy
5 years, 10 months ago

Australia’s Cardinal George Pell convicted of child sexual abuse amid increasing complaints of misconduct against clergy

Firstpost  

Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse has been convicted of molesting two boys, dealing a new blow to the Catholic hierarchy’s credibility after a year of global revelations of abuse and cover-up. Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis’ top financial adviser and the Vatican’s economy minister, bowed his head but then regained his …

Cardinal Pell to Face Two Trials for Historical Sexual Abuse Charges
6 years, 8 months ago

Cardinal Pell to Face Two Trials for Historical Sexual Abuse Charges

CNN  

Cardinal George Pell faces two trials for historical sexual abuse charges. The charges include incidents that allegedly took place at a swimming pool in rural Victoria in the 1970s and at St Patrick’s Cathedral during the 1990s. Pell's barrister hopes that proceedings will begin as soon as possible, but he was denied his request to not be compelled to be …

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