Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore has long touted its transparency in publishing names of clergy credibly accused of sexual abuse, but a report by Maryland state raises questions about integrity of the church's list.
A class-action lawsuit brought by 324 Indigenous communities has resulted in the settlement, which will be placed in a not-for-profit trust independent of the government.
A Catholic church figure, who was imprisoned for sexual abuse and later acquitted, died of complications related to a hip surgery.
US state of Maryland investigation identifies scores of Roman Catholic priests accused of sexually and physically abusing and torturing hundreds of victims over the past 80 years.
Wrapping up his Canadian visit, Francis said he repeatedly condemned the system that severed family ties and attempted to impose new cultural beliefs as “catastrophic” to generations of Indigenous peoples.
"I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples," Pope Francis has told Indigenous leaders from the First Nations, Metis and Inuit people.
Pope Francis began a fraught visit to Canada to apologise to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools, a key step in the Catholic Church’s efforts to reconcile with Native communities.
Details about what the roughly 300 victims have alleged happened to them in New Jersey Catholic were not included in the proposed settlement, according to an attorney for some 70 of the victims.
Almost 300 victims have come forward against Church officials, and investigators say that this number is just “the tip of the iceberg.”
Pope Francis hoped to visit Canada in late July to deliver the apology in person to survivors of the “deplorable” abuses they suffered in Canada’s Catholic-run residential schools.
The principles section of the new constitution says "any member of the faithful can head a dicastery (Curia department) or organism", making no distinction between lay men and lay women.
At least 54 more unmarked graves found at another one of the country’s indigenous schools.
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