Sentences with phrase «church sex abuse crisis»

Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, must stand trial on sexual assault charges, a court has ruled.

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The most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis will return to an Australian court on Tuesday to learn whether he must stand trial on charges that he sexually abused multiple victims decades ago.

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.

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There were thirteen addresses and homilies, and we can group them by such subject areas as his view of America, divisions in the Church, the sex abuse crisis, education, and international relations.

But the sex - abuse crisis prompted the bishops to give the NRB a mandate to examine the «causes and context» of what went wrong with the Church's leadership and what should be done about it.

Now he is breaking his silence, becoming a key figure in the sex - abuse crisis in the Catholic Church and the growing controversy over what Pope Benedict XVI did about it.

Few issues are as continually being put before us as the tragic clerical sex abuse crisis that has ravaged the Catholic Church in recent decades.

So far this caveman is flying his airliner quite well, outing himself as a «Godder» («a theologically very liberal Lutheran») and parachuting into topics as various as Pentecostalism in Brazil, secularity and ultra-orthodoxy in Israel, homosexuality in the Anglican communion, the sex abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium, Max - Weber - style «value free» sociology, and (a special interest of his) religious humor.

The international sex abuse crisis has involved revelations of the deep wounding of innocent children and their families by the sinful actions of individual priests and religious, sometimes enabled by the, at best, incompetence and, at worst, callous dereliction of duty of some members of the Church's hierarchy.

Two leading Oscar contenders also won awards: «Spotlight,» the drama about newspaper reporters investigating sex abuses in the Catholic Church, for original screenplay, nd «The Big Short,» the financial crisis dramedy, for adapted screenplay.

«If the sex abuse scandal had never occurred, the Catholic Church in the United States would still face a crisis,» says religion writer Peter Steinfels.