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The Archdiocese of San Francisco and lawyers for the survivors said the money would settle about 530 claims from people who said they were sexually abused by clergy members. By Soumya Karlamangla Reporting from San Francisco June 29, 2026Updated 3:30 p.m. ET The Archdiocese of San Francisco has agreed to a $395 million settlement with survivors of clergy sexual abuse, the archdiocese and lawyers for the victims said on Monday. The settlement addresses about 530 claims brought

The left-wing Spanish government and the country's Catholic Church recently signed a historic agreement to compensate victims of sexual abuse committed by members of the clergy. The arrangement concerns time-barred cases or cases where the perpetrator is deceased and comes after years of reluctance and a lack of transparency from the church hierarchy. https://www.ncronline.org/news/spains-historic-church-sex-abuse-compensation-marks-first-step-toward-reparation

By Robert Herguth A recent report says two Catholic priests long assoong associated with the University of Notre Dame preyed on male students and other young adults over a number of years — but victims and other critics say church and school officials haven’t come clean about all of the sexual misconduct they know about. [See also the text of the Notre Dame report.] Two priests long affiliated with the University of Notre Dame groomed and sexually abused young men at the stor

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After a meeting at the Vatican in October last year, Pope Leo XIV and a network for victims of clergy sexual abuse and continue to build collaboration through conversations with the Vatican’s safeguarding commission. The pope “is interested in dialogue and in seeing what can be done in his new role. I think the fact that he received us was a sign of trust on his part, because in the past the relationship between survivors’ groups and the Vatican has not been easy, so we took