Paedophilia Scandal

Pope Francis on Friday revealed the organising team for a special meeting on the protection of children to be held in February, in response to the paedophilia scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church worldwide.

Two people convicted in a massive Pakistan paedophilia scandal were handed life sentences Monday, officials said, after a law passed in March criminalised child sexual abuse in the country for the first time.

A Vatican prosecutor on Monday ordered a former Roman Catholic archbishop accused of paying for sex with children when he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic and of possessing child pornographic material to stand trial.

Activists fighting for truth and justice for victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests hold out little hope for progress under the next pope as controversy brews over a US cardinal who covered up for predator clerics.

The head of the BBC's governing body insisted on Tuesday he had to give director-general George Entwistle a huge pay-off when he quit in the wake of paedophilia scandals engulfing the corporation.

The Vatican has handled damaging child abuse cases in an "exemplary" manner, the editor of the Vatican newspaper said today, fending off widespread criticism over mushrooming paedophilia scandals.

Pope Francis on Friday revealed the organising team for a special meeting on the protection of children to be held in February, in response to the paedophilia scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church worldwide.

Two people convicted in a massive Pakistan paedophilia scandal were handed life sentences Monday, officials said, after a law passed in March criminalised child sexual abuse in the country for the first time.

A Vatican prosecutor on Monday ordered a former Roman Catholic archbishop accused of paying for sex with children when he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic and of possessing child pornographic material to stand trial.

Activists fighting for truth and justice for victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests hold out little hope for progress under the next pope as controversy brews over a US cardinal who covered up for predator clerics.

The head of the BBC's governing body insisted on Tuesday he had to give director-general George Entwistle a huge pay-off when he quit in the wake of paedophilia scandals engulfing the corporation.

The Vatican has handled damaging child abuse cases in an "exemplary" manner, the editor of the Vatican newspaper said today, fending off widespread criticism over mushrooming paedophilia scandals.