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Carmen Severino, an abuse survivor, is embraced during a news conference that heralded the release of thousands of documents from the Chicago Archdiocese on past cases of clergy sexual abuse in January 2014. (CNS photo/Jim Young, Reuters)
FaithDispatches
Judith Valente
Ms. Collins’ complaints “mirror” concerns she and other members of the National Review Board raised in the early years of the abuse scandal. “The whole thing spoke to me of ‘nothing’s changed.’”
In this 2013 file photo, people stand outside the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels holding quilts bearing photos of victims of sexual abuse by priests of the Los Angeles Archdiocese. (CNS photo/David McNew, Reuters) 
Politics & SocietyNews
Joe Mandak - Associated Press
A year ago, Pennsylvania's attorney general issued a scathing grand jury report that detailed abuse by more than 50 priests and other clergy against hundreds of children going back decades.
Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, arrives for a news conference at the Vatican in this June 14, 2016, file photo. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
FaithNews
Junno Arocho Esteves - Catholic News Service
"I think this cliche must be put to an end: the idea that the pope, who wants the reform, is on one side and, on the other, a group of resisters who want to block it."
Marie Collins of Ireland with Cardinal Sean O'Malley
FaithVatican Dispatch
Gerard O’Connell
"Any delay in improving safeguarding documents around the world is leaving vulnerable people and children in danger."
Marie Collins of Ireland, a survivor of clergy sexual abuse, is pictured in a 2014 photo. (CNS photo/Carol Glatz)
Politics & SocietyNews
Carol Glatz - Catholic News Service
Marie Collins, one of the founding members and the last remaining abuse survivor on the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, has quit.
Members of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests demonstrate in front of the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia Sept. 25, 2017, while Pope Francis met privately with a group of survivors of sexual abuse (CNS photo/Joshua Roberts).
FaithInterviews
Sean Salai
A former member of the Legion of Christ on a life turned upside down by sexual abuse in the church.