A sweeping, year-long study of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and others in Switzerland has turned up more than 1,000 cases since the mid-20th century, as the Swiss church becomes the latest in Europe to reckon with the abuse scandal. With few exceptions, those accused of wrongdoing were all male. Nearly three-fourths of the documents Read more
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Sweeping study finds 1,000 cases of sexual abuse in Swiss Catholic Church
Thursday, September 14th, 2023Lay people appointed in place of episcopal vicars in Swiss diocese
Monday, May 31st, 2021
A Swiss Catholic bishop has announced that he is appointing lay people in place of episcopal vicars in his diocese. Mgr Charles Morerod, bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Friborg in Switzerland, decided to appoint “representatives of the bishop” a lay woman and a man as well as a deacon in three “diocesan regions”. Morerod revealed Read more