The Oblates of Mary Immaculate has hired an independent third party monitor to oversee efforts to ensure members who have committed sex crimes do not reoffend.
WASHINGTON (CNS) Twenty years ago, in 2002, the revelations of clergy sexual abuse and its cover-up in the Archdiocese of Boston was the metaphorical bombshell that fell on the Catholic Church in the United States.
The U.S. bishops, when they met that June in Dallas, approved the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, a comprehensive set of procedures for addressing allegations of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy.
Its one-strike-and-you re-out policy did just th
An independent report by Guardian Solutions found Southern Baptist Convention leaders mishandled allegations of sexual abuse by ministers. The report released Sunday also found that some SBC leaders mistreated victims and resisted reforms.