Browsing: Abuse in Care
Sarah McMillan/cvnznews.com A survivor‑advocacy network says the Catholic Church’s claims of a “positive culture shift” in safeguarding do not match…
Dr. Christopher Longhurst KSO Pope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has repeatedly spoken about the Catholic Church’s responsibility to listen to…
Dr. Christopher Longhurst KSO The former Catholic Bishop of Broome, Christopher Saunders, has finally been convicted of sexually abusing young…
OPINION: Dr. Christopher Longhurst KSO The New Zealand Catholic Church’s Safeguarding Guidelines clearly establish a structure in which the Church’s…
When institutions are confronted with uncomfortable questions, they often reach for the safest distraction. They debate definitions. They quibble over…
Dr. Christopher Longhurst KSO The New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ news outlet, CathNews NZ, recently amplified survivors’ frustration at the Government’s…
Sarah McMillan/cvnznews.com Two years after the Abuse in Care Royal Commission delivered its landmark report, survivors say the Government’s slow…
Colin Ambler/cvnznews.com Parliament has now formally recorded how political parties voted on the Abuse in Care Redress Bill, after the…
Mike Bain/cvnznews.com The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP Aotearoa New Zealand) has criticised the Society of Mary…
For many survivors of clerical sexual abuse, the abuse did not end when the offending stopped. A second wound often followed.
Survivors named their abusers. The Royal Commission didn’t. Its final reports turned personal wrongdoing into anonymous “institutional failure,” leaving truth‑tellers…