We should be fearless in making clear that tolerating clergy sexual abuse stands in total contradiction to the core of the Gospel message.

The report contained 31 recommendations and responses and named Vancouver priests who have been criminally convicted.

A nine-point "plan of amends" developed by Bishop Brennan was announced in a Nov. 26 letter he sent to the faithful of the diocese.

The court also sentenced gardener Armando Gómez to 18 years in prison. The victims are 10 former students.

AP: Clergy sex abuse has cost more than $4 billion and implicated at least 5,100 priests by the church’s own count since 2002.

The state where a grand jury’s groundbreaking report set off a new wave of reckoning over sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church passed legislation Thursday giving victims more time to sue and police more time to file charges.