NSPCC head in church abuse role
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The head of the NSPCC in Belfast is to take charge of the Catholic church's Irish child protection board.
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The nation's Roman Catholic bishops said Friday they will spend the next nine months deciding whether to make any changes in the policy they enacted at the height of the clergy sex abuse crisis that includes permanently barring guilty priests from church work.
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The Church of England's highest-ranking cleric has warned of a crisis of modern childhood due to fierce pressures at school and from increasingly aggressive advertizing.
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Joan Houk has ministered to the sick and needy, run two Roman Catholic parishes that were without priests and has presided over baptisms and funerals. Her calling now, she says, is to be a priest.
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Top theologian on Lambeth Commission talks about what happened behind the scenes, whether the report should have been tougher, and why it&#39;s critical of some conservative bishops.
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As the Roman Catholic Church struggles to repair its image in the wake of sex abuse scandals, one issue church leaders face is what to do with priests accused of abuse.
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Sexual abuse of children is not just a Catholic Church problem and other institutions should take steps to acknowledge and deal with such "wickedness" within their own ranks, the Vatican said on Tuesday.
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The first minister is expected to address parliament on the issue of child abuse in a debate forced through by MSPs.
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Measures to support the survivors of abuse in children's homes are set out by the Scottish Government.
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An inquiry into the way sex abuse in the Catholic Church is tackled finds progress has been made.
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A Catholic bishop praises parishioners for their response to a priest at the centre of a sex abuse allegation.
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New charges were filed against a pastor on Monday amid the expansion of an investigation into allegations that leaders of two reclusive church communes sexually abused girls.
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U.S. Catholic bishops, facing the  financial aftermath of a pervasive child sex abuse scandal,  elected a president on Monday whose diocese plans to seek  bankruptcy protection from dozens of alleged victims.
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Britain's child protection chief is criticised for arguing not all child sex offenders should be jailed.
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Priests suspected of sexually abusing children but protected from expulsion by Catholic law are being offered a choice in the New York Archdiocese: Enter a lifelong supervision program or leave the church.
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U.S. Catholic bishops, facing the  financial aftermath of a pervasive child sex abuse scandal, on  Monday elected a president whose diocese plans to seek  bankruptcy protection from dozens of alleged victims.