A Catholic News Agency report, published 17 November 2022 by Courtney Mares, on the Italian Bishops' Conference's first national report on clergy abuse, presented at a Rome press conference by Archbishop Giuseppe Baturi of Cagliari, CEI Secretary-General. The article records the report's own figures for 2020 to 2021: 89 presumed victims and 68 accused, broken down as 30 clerics, 23 laypeople and 15 religious.
Facts
Citation
AuthorCourtney Mares
PublisherCatholic News Agency
Publication Year2022
URLhttps://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252841/italian-bishops-release-report-evaluating-diocesan-efforts-to-prevent-abuse
Source Typenews
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2: a dedicated Catholic news wire's direct contemporaneous report from the press conference itself, corroborated by Euronews's independent contemporaneous coverage the same day. NotesTier 2: the source for the 89-victim, 68-accused breakdown and Archbishop Baturi's role as presenter, cross checked against Euronews's independent contemporaneous coverage of the same press conference.
Claims Backed By This Source (20 claims)
This source backs 20 claims across the atlas. As facts: 17 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies, 12 claims: 9 well-attested, 2 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
Well-attested
17Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
Connected
2Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
General References
1Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
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