Posts Tagged ‘special commission’

Special Aussie abuse report scathing about senior clergy

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2014

An Australian investigation about police handling of abuse in the Church has found evidence to warrant prosecution of a senior church official. A special commission was set up after accusations that a police investigation into child sexual abuse allegations in Maitland-Newcastle diocese was a sham. Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox asserted there was a “Catholic Read more

Medjugorje commission won’t report this year

Friday, December 7th, 2012

The Vatican has denied a report that a special commission investigating the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje will release its findings during December. A French journal, La Vie, had reported that the Medjugorje commission appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in March 2010, and chaired by Cardinal Camillo Ruini, would present its report to the Pope by Read more