McCarrick’s legal team filed the report Feb. 27 in Massachusetts’ Dedham District Court based on a medical evaluation that found McCarrick, 92, is suffering from impaired cognition.
Prosecutors challenge medical report finding McCarrick not competent to stand trial
Women must be included in formation of priests, says abuse expert
One of the church’s leading experts on safeguarding and clerical sexual abuse has said the exclusion of women from seminary formation has had “extremely harmful consequences,” and this “needs to change.”
New German study finds Osnabrück Diocese ignored rights of abuse victims
The German Catholic news agency KNA said the study found that, until recently, officials had neglected to conduct adequate monitoring of clerics after they had been removed from their posts following accusations of abuse.
Belgian bishop asks pope not to make him a cardinal
The Belgian bishops’ conference issued a statement June 16 announcing the decision and thanking Bishop Van Looy for making the request.
Italian bishops approve child protection audit, 20-year abuse study
A statement from the conference said the archives of the doctrinal congregation will allow the bishops “to know and analyze, quantitatively and qualitatively, the data kept at the congregation while ensuring the appropriate confidentiality.”
U.S. cardinal urges Italian bishops to track, share information about abuse
Cardinal O’Malley encouraged the bishops “to undertake a constructive process of review, of reform and of reconciliation” in view of calls for a national study on clerical sexual abuse.
Jesuits suspend prominent Chilean priest pending abuse investigation
In a statement May 3, the Jesuit province in Chile said a complaint was received April 28 “from an adult woman against Jesuit Father Felipe Berríos for acts of sexual connotation.
Court sets March date for former Cardinal McCarrick’s hearing
Proceedings before a criminal trial involving former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick will continue March 3 in Massachusetts, where he faces three counts of sexually assaulting a teenager in the 1970s.