Australian Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, has officially denied charges of sexual abuse spanning decades after his lawyers failed to sway a court to dismiss them. (westernmassnews.com)
«What was involved in the American clerical sex abuse crisis was the behavior of some 1.5 percent of the roughly 150,000 priests who served under hundreds of bishops in the course of half a century,» Steinfels writes. (firstthings.com)
In 2002, when the articles and cartoons about the Catholic sex abuse crisis reached a crescendo? (firstthings.com)