Cumberlege Commission

Ecclesiastical commission chaired by Julia Cumberlege

The Cumberlege Commission was an ecclesiastical commission chaired by Julia Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege, in 2006–2007. Its goal was to review the Catholic Church in England and Wales' policies in the prevention of child sexual abuse. The commission carried out its activities five years on from the independent review by Lord Nolan. It published its report, Safeguarding with Confidence, in July 2007.^[1]^[2]

References

^ " Church 'better at tackling abuse'", BBC News, 15 July 2007
^ The Cumberlege Commission Report

Catholic Church sexual abuse cases

Cases

By context

In confession

By country

By religious
institute

By clerical
rank

Cardinals	Hans Hermann Groër (1998) Stanisław Dziwisz (1998) Bernard Francis Law (2002) Angelo Sodano (2010) Keith O'Brien (2015) Edward Egan (2018) Theodore McCarrick (2019) Ricardo Ezzati (2019)
Bishops	Joseph Keith Symons (1998) Anthony O'Connell (2002) Georg Müller (2009) Raymond Lahey (2012) Józef Wesołowski (2013) Marco Órdenes Fernández (2018) Francisco José Cox (2018) Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar (2018) Cristián Caro Cordero (2018) Franco Mulakkal (2018) Juan Barros Madrid (2018) Philip Wilson (2018) Edward Joseph Adams (2019)
Priests	Category:Catholic priests convicted of sexual abuse

Responses

Catholic
Church

Holy See	Roman Curia Crimen sollicitationis (1962) The Role of the Church in the Causation, Treatment and Prevention of the Crisis in the Priesthood (1971) Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations (2005) Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (2014) Vatican sexual abuse summit (2019) Vos estis lux mundi [2019]
US Conference of Catholic Bishops	Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People (2002) John Jay Report (2004)
Other	Settlements and bankruptcies (since 1994) Virtus (1998) Hussey Commission (2002)
See also	Parish transfers of abusive Catholic priests (c. 1956–2011)