VATICAN CITY
Vatican Insider

The Vatican’s new sexual crimes prosecutor, Fr. Oliver, confirmed this. The number of reports filed for sexual abuse against minors by priests reached its peak in 2004, at 800

Alessandro Speciale
Vatican City

A year has passed since the “Towards Healing and Renewal” Symposium – organised by the Gregorian University with the support of numerous dioceses and the Vatican Curia – which was intended as an occasion to reflect on and share the progress made by the Catholic Church in dealing with the sex abuse scandal.

Twelve months on, a meeting was held at the same university for the presentation – in 12 languages – of the proceedings of that Symposium. An occasion to look at all that has been done in terms of prevention and training since the suggestions were made at the Symposium. The Gregorian University’s Center for Child Protection is putting…