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Vatican report says clergy sex abuse victims need reparations and tangible sanctions to heal

Pope Leo XIV presides over a Rosary vigil for peace in St. Peter's Square on the 63rd anniversary of the start of the Second Vatican Council, at the Vatican, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2025. (Credit: Gregorio Borgia/AP.)

Vatican report says clergy sex abuse victims need reparations and tangible sanctions to heal

The Vatican’s child protection board said Thursday the Catholic Church has a moral obligation to help victims of clergy sexual abuse heal, and identified financial reparations and sanctions for abusers and their enablers as essential remedies.

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Pope Leo XIV meets Brazilian President Luiz Lula da Silva in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Oct. 13, 2025. Lula holds a book with a black and white photo representing the Asháninka, an Indigenous people living in the rainforests in Brazil and Peru. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

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Supporters of National Citizen Party (NCP) listen to the party leader Nahid Islam during a political rally in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2025. (Credit: Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP.)

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A child with other people walks around a cage to look at bugs at an exhibition devoted to insects in Tokyo, Japan, July 31, 2025. (Credit: Yuri Kageyama/AP.)

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A woman shouts, “Murderers” in Spanish after Uruguay’s senate passed a law decriminalizing euthanasia, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. (Credit: Matilde Campodonico/AP.)

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Cathedral of St. Joseph in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

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Oct 15
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Egyptian Red Crecent members monitor trucks carrying humanitarian aids as they enter the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, following an agreement between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (Credit: Mohamed Arafat/AP.)

Christian leaders in Holy Land praise peace deal in Gaza

Oct 15
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A child with other people walks around a cage to look at bugs at an exhibition devoted to insects in Tokyo, Japan, July 31, 2025. (Credit: Yuri Kageyama/AP.)

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Oct 16
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A woman shouts, “Murderers” in Spanish after Uruguay’s senate passed a law decriminalizing euthanasia, in Montevideo, Uruguay, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025. (Credit: Matilde Campodonico/AP.)

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Cathedral of St. Joseph in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. (Credit: Wikimedia.)

New Hampshire court rules in clergy abuse case that 2020 law cannot be applied retroactively

Oct 15
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Egyptian Red Crecent members monitor trucks carrying humanitarian aids as they enter the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, following an agreement between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2025. (Credit: Mohamed Arafat/AP.)

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Oct 15
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Oct 15
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Pope Leo says without Christ, life becomes ‘wandering without a goal’

Oct 15
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Group defining crime of spiritual abuse making good progress, cardinal says

Oct 15
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