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German bishop offers to resign over abuse (AP)

April 22nd, 2010

FILE - The March 2, 2009 file photo shows Augsburg's Bishop Walter Mixa during the bishops conference in Hamburg, northern Germany. Mixa is offering his resignation after a flap over allegations of physical abuse and financial misconduct, his hometown newspaper reported Wednesday, April 21, 2010.  Augsburg Bishop Walter Mixa wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI Wednesday evening offering to resign as bishop and as Germany's Roman Catholic military chaplain, the daily Augsburger Allgemeine reported, without citing sources. ,(AP Photo/Focke Strangmann, file)AP - A leading conservative Roman Catholic bishop in Germany has written to Pope Benedict XVI offering to resign amid persistent allegations of physical abuse and financial misconduct, the Augsburg…

Pope promises action against clerical sex abuse (AP)

April 21st, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI waves at the end of his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican April 21, 2010.  REUTERS/Alessia Pierdomenico (VATICAN - Tags: RELIGION PROFILE)AP - Pope Benedict XVI promised Wednesday that the Catholic Church would take action to confront the clerical sex abuse scandal, making his first public comments on the crisis days…

Pope arrives in Malta, sex abuse meeting unclear (AP)

April 17th, 2010

Pope  Benedict XVI and Malta's President George Abela listen to national anthems as they meet in La Valletta's binternational/b airport, Malta, Saturday, April 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)AP - Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday began a brief pilgrimage to this heavily Catholic island, saying “our sins” have wounded the church in Malta, where victims of sex abuse…

Pope breaks silence on abuse, urges repentance (AP)

April 15th, 2010

Pope Benedict XVI walks away as a Swiss guard stands in foreground, following his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 14, 2010. The Vatican has gone into full-fledged damage control mode in the priest sex abuse scandal ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's first foreign trip since it erupted. Officials are promising surprising new initiatives. The pope's personal secretary is speaking out. And bishops around the world are being told to report abuse cases to the police. The revved-up strategy comes as the Vatican tries to stem the damage from weeks of revelations about priests who raped and molested children, and the church officials who kept it quiet — before the pontiff's visit to Malta this weekend. Abuse victims on that majority Roman Catholic Mediterranean island are seeking a papal audience and apology. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP - Pope Benedict XVI broke his recent silence on the clerical abuse scandal Thursday, complaining that the church was under attack but saying that “we Christians” must repent for…

Last snapshots of priests accused of abuse (AP)

April 14th, 2010

AP - A Colombian, Diaz pleaded guilty to sexually abusing three boys while a priest at St. Leo’s Church and Our Lady of Sorrows Church in New York in the…

Vatican goes into damage control mode over abuse (AP)

April 14th, 2010

FILE - In this April 7, 2010 file photo, Pope Benedict XVI, listens to his personal secretary Georg Gaenswein during the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican. The Vatican goes into full-fledged damage control mode in the priest sex abuse scandal ahead of the pope's first foreign trip since it erupted.  (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)AP - The Vatican has gone into full-fledged damage control mode in the priest sex abuse scandal ahead of the pope’s first foreign trip since it erupted. Officials are promising…

US Catholic church moving faster on abuse cases (AP)

April 13th, 2010

FILE - In this January 5, 2007 file photo, Archbishop Charles Chaput is speaks during an interview at the church's headquarters in Denver. Chaput acted swiftly suspending Rev. Melvin Thompson from Saint Thomas More Parish after decades-old child sex abuse allegations were presented against the priest. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, FILE)AP - The action against the priest was swift and public.


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Vatican to bishops: follow law, report sex abuse (AP)

April 12th, 2010

FILE - In this March 31, 2010 photo, Pope Benedict XVI waves as he is driven through the crowd during his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican.   The uproar caused by reports that, as an archbishop years ago in Germany and later as a Vatican cardinal, Benedict and his aides were slow to defrock abusive priests, cannot be explained as the church equivalent of Watergate with the pope in the role of U.S. president. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo  Cito)AP - The Vatican responded Monday to allegations that it had concealed years of clerical sex abuse by making it clear for the first time that bishops and other high-ranking…

Vatican: Bishops must report sex abuse to police (AP)

April 12th, 2010

FILE - In this March 31, 2010 photo, Pope Benedict XVI waves as he is driven through the crowd during his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican.   The uproar caused by reports that, as an archbishop years ago in Germany and later as a Vatican cardinal, Benedict and his aides were slow to defrock abusive priests, cannot be explained as the church equivalent of Watergate with the pope in the role of U.S. president. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo  Cito)AP - The Vatican responded Monday to allegations that it had concealed years of clerical sex abuse by making it clear for the first time that bishops and other high-ranking…

Vatican makes clear bishops must report sex abuse (AP)

April 12th, 2010

FILE - In this March 31, 2010 photo, Pope Benedict XVI waves as he is driven through the crowd during his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican.   The uproar caused by reports that, as an archbishop years ago in Germany and later as a Vatican cardinal, Benedict and his aides were slow to defrock abusive priests, cannot be explained as the church equivalent of Watergate with the pope in the role of U.S. president. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo  Cito)AP - The Vatican responded Monday to allegations that it had concealed years of clerical sex abuse by making it clear for the first time that bishops and other high-ranking…