A jury in Australia had found Cardinal Pell guilty in December 2018 on five counts of abuse and the Victoria Court of Appeal upheld that verdict in a 2-1 decision. 

Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a member of the Pontifical Commision for the Protection of Minors, has said that vulnerable minors must be protected against online predators during the pandemic.

Nualy Kenny's new book on clergy sex abuse reminds us there are solutions to this deep crisis that need to be implemented with urgency.

The Mara region of Tanzania, of which Musoma is the capital, has some of that country's highest rates of child marriage and female genital mutilation, even though both are technically illegal in Tanzania.

A Catholic psychologist has called the increasing rates of domestic violence during the pandemic a “pandemic within a pandemic.”

Church leaders in Africa are urging more attention be paid to the problem of spousal abuse during the pandemic.