Pope to meet Legion visitators on Friday

Fr Federico Lombardi SJ, the Vatican spokesman said today the five episcopal visitators to the Legionaries of Christ will meet on Friday April 30 to make their initial presentation and proposals for the beleagured religious congregation.

Lombardi addresses German abuse scandal

This was sent out on the Vatican Bolletino email but doesn’t seem to be on the Vatican website yet. Fr Federico Lombardi SJ spoke about the developing, ever widening clerical sex abuse scandals in Germany, Austria, Holland and Ireland. He addressed the German Government’s criticism of the Church, and has said that the Church would bring its painful experience of dealing with sexual abuse cases to the round-table to discuss the issues.Rocco Palmo has the whole story here.