Following the Synod’s announcement, the monk’s lawyers highlighted that the alleged ‘confessions’ and ‘order to defrock’ were signed under duress. The lawyers, Adrianna Klaedes and ...

In September, Antwerp Bishop Johan Bonny told Belgian broadcaster VRT that the Belgian bishops had asked the Vatican for years, in writing and in person, to defrock Vangheluwe but got no response.

In 2006, Trautman submitted a formal request to the Vatican to defrock Presley, and it was in this request that the brutality of Presley’s actions is laid out. “Presley is a violent man.

As happened in other dioceses around the world, the hierarchy failed to defrock or punish some of these abusers and moved them around to new locations where they continued their predations on boys ...

Benedict removed some 800 priests, but Francis seems far less eager to defrock abusers, reflecting resistance within the hierarchy to efforts to permanently remove predators from the priesthood.

In September, Antwerp Bishop Johan Bonny told Belgian broadcaster VRT that the Belgian bishops had asked the Vatican for years, in writing and in person, to defrock Vangheluwe but got no response.