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According to Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA), any plan by the Pope must include these 3 actions: 1. Enact global zero tolerance for any abusive cleric and superior’s complicity. Even one substantiated act of child sexual abuse or cover-up, no matter when it occurred, will...
Global survivors to Pope Francis: 3 things you must do now to end clergy abuse The words require planning and action. These 3 actions, group says, will turn the corner on clergy sex abuse and cover-ups In yesterday’s letter by the Pope,‘Letter to the People of God’,...
2018 - 08 - 21 ECA STATEMENT - PEDRO SALINAS
2018 - 08 - 21 Comunicado Pedro Salinas - Español
VATICAN CITY (AP) Report By NICOLE WINFIELD May.18, 2018 — In the biggest shake-up yet in the Catholic Church’s long-running sex abuse scandal, every active Chilean bishop offered to resign Friday over what Pope Francis said was their “grave negligence” in...
José Andrés Murillo: "To fight against pedophilia in the Church, we must change our logic" Interview with Marie Malzac of LaCroix Press: 1/22/2018 Founder of the Chilean association for the fight against sexual abuse "For confidence", José Andrés Murillo expects the...
José Andrés Murillo, director of the "Para la confianza" foundation, speaks to the press in Santiago, Chile February 21, 2018 / Luis Hidalgo / AP Reported from La Croix Press 3-23-2018: In taking the defense, during his trip to Chile in January, of Bishop Juan Barros,...
Brother Germán Chávez, recently denounced in the Maristas case. Reported in The Clinic 3/20/2018: On Monday, part of the Marist case reporters finally filed a lawsuit against five religious, including Cristián Precht, for the crimes of illicit association, improper...
Report by Lenka Carvallo, March 22, 2018: A pedophilia network that would involve well-known diocesan, Marist and lay priests. Sexual abuse committed through religious rites. Together with five IAE alumni, we reconstruct a plot that has this influential educational...
Child protection activists and concerned individuals over 5 continents met in Chile in January 2018 to brainstorm and create an action plan on how to end clergy sexual abuse. This was one of the pivotal meetings which led to the formation of ECA: Ending Clergy Abuse....