Vatican complains after French court rules in favor of nun dismissed from religious order
The Holy See has formally protested to France after a court there ruled that a former high-ranking Vatican official was liable for what the court determined to be the wrongful dismissal of a nun from a religious order.
McCarrick: What's known about the abusive US ex-cardinal
The Vatican on Tuesday will release its long-awaited report into what it knew about ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarricks sexual misconduct during his rise through the church hierarchy. But beyond that, the McCarrick case has forced the Vatican to acknowledge that adults can be victims of sexual abuse, too. The Vatican's new policies, enacted as a response to the McCarrick scandal, spell out that adults can be forced โto perform or submit to sexual acts" through abuses of authority by church leaders. Here is what we know about the McCarrick case ahead of the release of the Vatican report:___WHATโS IT ALL ABOUT? McCarrick, 90, was defrocked last year after the Vatican determined he sexually abused adults and children, including during confession.