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# Clergy

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# Clergy
Government 'failing to support' priests' children as they search for their fathers
Vincent Doyle said time is running out for the government to implement a UN recommendation.
# Clergy
Murphy Report unfairly 'named, blamed and shamed' individuals says review
The review, commissioned by the Association for Catholic Priests, says that the Murphy report into child sexual abuse in Dublin “went well beyond its mandate”.
# Religion
Dutch priest to display photos of Church quitters
Many Catholics in the country were shocked by the Pope’s recent call to “fight” gay marriage.
# Abuse
German Catholic Church says 66 clergy accused of sex abuse
A new study says the clergy has been accused of 576 cases of sexual assault between 2000 and 2010.
Voices
Column: We must stop the reports on clerical child abuse.. and spend that money on survivors
We know children were molested and raped and we know the Church protected the evil abusers, writes Evin Daly, CEO of One Child International. What those victims need now is support and funding, not more reports.
# Belgium
Seventy people to take Vatican and Belgian church officials to court over abuse claims
The group claim that the organisations did not protect them from paedophile priests.