https://www.ncronline.org/news/san-francisco-parishes-hit-massive-bills-sex-abuse-settlement?utm_source=NCR+List&utm_campaign=df833ca924-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2026_08_20_01_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6981ecb02e-df833ca924-230637090 by Sean Piccoli (NCR logo/Toni-Ann Ortiz) When the Archdiocese of San Francisco announced in late June that it would pay $395 million to hundreds of people who were sexually abused as children by Bay Area priests, archdiocesan leaders also quietly sen

https://catholicreview.org/in-france-pope-to-highlight-life-unity-vatican-confirms-hell-meet-with-abuse-victims/ (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV will make a four-day apostolic journey to France Sept. 25-28, with a program that stretches from the Élysée Palace and UNESCO in Paris to the Marian shrine of Lourdes and a final stop in Metz, and it will include a private meeting with victims of abuse in the Church, the Vatican has confirmed. The Holy See Press Office released the detaile

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