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Benedict’s lack of a personal apology or admission of guilt immediately riled sex abuse survivors.
The former pontiff's personal secretary, Archbishop Georg Ganswein, said Benedict "is very sorry for this mistake and asks to be excused.”
A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany’s Munich diocese has faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of four cases when he was archbishop.
"As a survivor, I want to be sure no other child suffers what I did as a boy."
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There's a lot more going on in movies like "Agnes" and "Benedetta" than their lewder trailers are letting on.
The bishop intended to attack consumerism during the holidays but instead presented a shocking reveal about Santa Claus, the diocese claims.
Phil Saviano played a pivotal role exposing decades of predatory assaults by Roman Catholic priests.
The figure includes abuses committed by some 3,000 priests and other people involved in the church, covered up over decades in a “systemic manner."
Court records show that former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy during a wedding reception in the 1970s.
More than 150 boarding schools for Indigenous children in the United States were operated by religious groups between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries — and churches are now reckoning with their traumatic legacy.