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Child and Youth Protection
U.S. Bishops’ Secretariat for Child and Youth Protection Releases Annual Report
The report is based on the audit findings of StoneBridge Business Partners, a specialty consulting firm headquartered in Rochester, New York, which provides forensic...
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Child and Youth Protection
Jesuits expel mosaic artist Father Rupnik, accused of abuse
The Society of Jesus has expelled Father Marko Rupnik, a well-known mosaic artist, from the order after he refused to comply with measures and limitations imposed on his...
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Child and Youth Protection
Bishop Chairmen Call on Lawmakers to Protect Children Online
In a letter to members of the U.S. Congress, four bishops who serve as chairmen of committees in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) encouraged lawmakers to...
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Child and Youth Protection
Pope to safeguarding commission: Be kind, bring hope, heal broken lives
Members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors met with Pope Francis while in Rome for their plenary assembly May 3-6.
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Child and Youth Protection
Pope issues updated 'Vos Estis' text for handling abuse cases
Pope Francis has updated and made definitive the provisions in "Vos Estis Lux Mundi" (You are the light of the world), his 2019 document setting out procedures for...
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Child and Youth Protection
U.S. Bishops’ Secretariat for Child and Youth Protection Releases Annual Report
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection has released their 2021 Annual Report. The report is based on the audit...
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Child and Youth Protection
USCCB Continues to Offer Child Protection and Safe Environment Resources to Assist Dioceses and Eparchies
This June marks twenty years since the U.S. bishops gathered in Dallas, Texas to address the sin of clergy sexual abuse. At their 2002 meeting, the bishops drafted and...
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Child and Youth Protection
Statement of USCCB President on Twenty Years Since Passage of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People
This June marks twenty years since the Catholic bishops of the United States gathered in Dallas, Texas to draft and pass the Charter for the Protection of Children and...
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Child and Youth Protection
U.S. Bishops’ Secretariat for Child and Youth Protection Releases Annual Report
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection has released the 2020 Annual Report – Findings and Recommendations on the...
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Child and Youth Protection
Statement of U.S. Bishops’ Chairman for Child and Youth Protection on Report of Clergy Sexual Abuse in France
Following the news this week of a report commissioned by the French bishops on sexual abuse in the Church in France, Bishop James V. Johnston Jr. of Kansas City-St...