American Catholic clergy are now vanishingly unlikely to abuse children sexually.

You don't have to be a paedophile to abuse children.

He went on to abuse children at at least four other schools over another 14 years.

Although he has repeatedly promised zero tolerance for priests who abuse children, critics demand further action.

The pope said Catholic priests who abuse children were carrying out the worst form of evil.

He welcomed Pope Francis' call for priests who sexually abuse children to turn themselves into the authorities.

MY: As an actor there's … nothing I wouldn't do except for abuse children or rape women.

Granahan, who oversees prosecutions of people who sexually abuse children, did not respond to a call seeking comment.

Sadly, a number of clergy did use their positions to abuse children in the past and that is utterly reprehensible.

Officers also found an instruction video for paedophiles showing them how to abuse children from birth until the age of eight.

Similarly erroneous is the hypothesis that men sexually abuse children because they are unable to have sexual contact with consenting adults.

The move was welcomed yesterday by both police and social workers, who said paedophiles were constantly seeking new ways to abuse children.

Twice last month Bishop Kirby asserted that the priest in question did not abuse children in the parish to which he moved him.

A Catholic bishop says the Church could consider releasing the names of clergy who abuse children, even if they don't go through the courts.

There was "no intervention, no assistance and no accountability" from the Catholic Church when Mr O'Grady began to abuse children, he added.

He's helped homeless teenagers, heroin addicts, adolescent parents and sexually abused children.