• To the members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (5 May 2023)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
   
• To the members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (29 April 2022)
  [English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Video Message of the Holy Father for the meeting “Our common mission of safeguarding God’s children”, organised by the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors and the Bishops’ Conferences of Central and Eastern Europe (18 September 2021)
  [English, Italian, Polish, Spanish]

• Apostolic Letter in the form of “Motu Proprio” of the Supreme Pontiff Francis "Vos estis lux mundi" (7 May 2019)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Apostolic Letter issued 'Motu Proprio' of His Holiness Pope Francis on the protection of minors and vulnerable persons (26 March 2019)
  [English, Italian, Portuguese]
   
  • Law no. CCXCVII on the protection of minors and vulnerable persons of Vatican City State
    [English, Italian, Portuguese]
     
  • Guidelines on the protection of minors and vulnerable persons for the Vicariate of Vatican City
    [English, Italian, Portuguese]

• Letter sent by the Holy Father to the Bishops of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (1st January 2019)
  [English, Italian, Spanish]

• Christmas greetings to the Roman Curia (21 December 2018)
  [Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Letter to the People of God (20 August 2018)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Letter to the People of God in Chile (31 May 2018)
  [Spanish]

• Letter to the Bishops of Chile (17 May 2018)
  [English, Spanish]

• Letter to the Bishops of Chile following the report of Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna (8 April 2018)
  [English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• To the participants in the Congress on “Child Dignity in the Digital World” (6 October 2017)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Address to the members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (21 September 2017)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] 

• Letter of the Holy Father to Bishops on the Feast of the Holy Innocents (28 December 2016)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Apostolic Letter issued 'Motu Proprio' As a Loving Mother (4 June 2016)
  [English, Italian]

• Letter to the Presidents of Episcopal Conferences and Superiors of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life concerning the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (2 February 2015)
  [English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• "Rescriptum ex audientia Ss.mi" regarding the creation of a College, within the Congregation for the Faith, for the examination of ecclesiastical appeals involving delicta graviora (3 November 2014)
  [English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Holy Mass celebrated in the Chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae with a group of clergy sex abuse victims (7 July 2014)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Pastoral Letter to the Catholics of Ireland (March 19, 2010)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
   
• Message for the closing of the Fiftieth International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin (June 17, 2012)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Christmas greetings to Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops and Directors of the Governorate of Vatican City State (December 20, 2010)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Meeting with the Bishops of England, Wales and Scotland in the Chapel of the Francis Martin House, Oscott College (Birmingham, 19 September 2010)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Visit to St Peter's Residence home for older people (London Borough of Lambeth, 18 September 2010)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Mass in the Cathedral of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ (City of Westminster, 18 September 2010)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Spanish]

• Meeting owith journalists during the flight to the United Kingdom (Papal Flight, 16 September 2010)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish] 

• Holy Mass concluding the Year for Priests (11 June 2010)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Meeting with journalists during the flight to Lisbon (Papal Flight, 11 May 2010)
  [English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Regina Cæli, 25 April 2010
  [Croatian, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Press Release: Meeting with a group of persons who were sexually abused (Apostolic Nunciature in Malta, 18 April 2010)
  [English, French, Italian]
   
• Meeting with journalists during the flight to Malta (Papal flight, 17 April 2010)
  [English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
   
• Meeting with the Irish Bishops, February 2010 - Press Release
  [English]
   
• Meeting with some Irish Bishops, December 2009 - Press Release
  [English]
   
• Meeting with the Assembly of First Nations of Canada, April 2009 - Press Release
  [English]
   
• Speeches and Press Releases – Apostolic Journey to Australia, July 2008
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
   
• Speeches and Press Releases – Apostolic Journey to the United States, April 2008
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
   
• Speech to the Irish Bishops on their ad Limina visit, October 2006
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

 
John Paul II

• Rescriptum ex audientia SS.mi: Rescriptum of the Holy Father John Paul II on the delegation to the Supreme Apostolic Tribunal of the CDF for cases of graviora delicta committed by Cardinals, Patriarchs, and Bishops, as well as by religious superiors and other clerics referred to in CIC can. 1405 and CCEO cann. 1060 and 1061 (19 February 2004)
  [Italian]

• Speech to the American Bishops on their ad Limina visit, 2004
  [English, Portuguese]

• Rescriptum ex audientia SS.mi: Rescriptum of the Holy Father John Paul II on the faculty to derogate from the terms of prescription in cases of graviora delicta (7 November 2002)
  [Italian]
   
• Speech to the American Cardinals, 2002
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Press Statement (9 September 2018)
  [English, Italian, Spanish]

• Press Statement (17 February 2018)
  [English, Italian, Spanish]

• Statement by H.Em. Cardinal Sean O'Malley, OFM Cap at the Consistory on 12 February 2015
  [English, Italian]

• Press Statement (9 February 2015)
  [English, Italian, Spanish]

• 24 February 2019

Address of His Holiness at the end of the Eucharistic Concelebration
[Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]

Eucharistic Celebration

• 23 February 2019

Penitential Celebration

3^rd Presentation by Dr Valentina Alazraki
[Croatian, Italian, Spanish]

2^nd Presentation by Reinhard Cardinal Marx
[English, Italian]

1^st Presentation by Sr. Veronica Openibo, SHCJ
[English, Italian]

• 22 February 2019

Intervention by the Holy Father Francis
[English, French, Italian, Português, Spanish]

3^rd  Presentation by Dr Linda Ghisoni
[Italian]

2^nd Presentation by Blase Joseph Cardinal Cupich
[English, Italian]

1^st  Presentation by Oswald Cardinal Gracias
[English, Italian]

• 21 February 2019

3^rd Presentation by Rubén Cardinal Salazar Gómez
[Italian, Spanish]

2^nd Presentation by H.E. Msgr Charles Jude Scicluna
[English]

1^st Presentation by Luis Antonio G. Cardinal Tagle
[English]

Reflection points
[English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

Introduction of the Holy Father
[Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Press conference to present the Meeting (18 February 2019)
  [English, Italian, Spanish]

• www.pbc2019.org

Letter of the Members of the Organizing Committee to the participants in the Meeting “The protection of minors in the Church ” [21-24 February 2019] (18 December 2018)
[English, Italian, Spanish]

Holy See Press Office Communiqué (18 December 2018)
[English, Spanish]

• Vademecum on certain points of procedure in treating cases of sexual abuse of minors committed by clerics (16 July 2020) Ver. 1.0
  [English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Rescriptum ex audientia SS.mi (6 December 2019)
  [English, German, Italian, Spanish]

• Rescriptum ex audientia SS.mi (3 December 2019)
  [English, German, Italian, Spanish]

• Regulations of the Special Judging Board established for the examination of appeals to the Ordinary Session of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (1st October 2018)
  [Italian]

• Norms
  [Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish]
   
• Letter to the bishops of the Catholic Church and to the Ordinaries and Hierarchs, regarding the modifications introduced in the Normae de gravioribus delictis
  [Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
   
• The norms of the Motu Proprio “Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela” (2001): Historical introduction
  [Czech, English, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak]
   
• A brief introduction to the modifications made in the Normae de gravioribus delictis, reserved to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
  [Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]
   
• The significance of the publication of the new "Norms concerning the most serious crimes". Note by Fr. F. Lombardi
  [English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Report on the Holy See’s institutional knowledge and decision-making process related to former Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick (from 1930 to 2017)
  [English, Italian]

• Statement of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State (10 November 2020)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Holy See Press Office Communiqué (23 November 2018)
  [English, Italian, Spanish]

• Holy See Press Office Communiqué (6 October 2018)
  [English, Italian, Spanish]

• Holy See and Convention of the Rights of the Child. The meaning of a commitment (Note by Fr. Lombardi)
  [Italian]

• Presentation by H.E. Msgr. Silvano Tomasi of the Periodic Reports of the Holy See to the Committee on the application of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Geneva, 16 January 2014)
  [English, Italian]

• Briefing on the Meeting of the Council of Cardinals (5 December 2013)
  [English, Italian]
   
• Summary of the Findings of the Apostolic Visitation in Ireland (March 20, 2012)
  [English]

• Response to Mr Eamon Gilmore, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland, concerning the Cloyne Report (September 3, 2011)
  [English]

• Communiqué (September 3, 2011)
  [English]

• Summary of the Response to Mr Eamon Gilmore, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland, concerning the Cloyne Report (September 3, 2011)
  [English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Communiqué at the conclusion of the first phase of the Apostolic Visitation in Ireland (6 June 2011)
  [English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Circular letter to assist Episcopal Conferences in developing Guidelines for dealing with cases of sexual abuse of minors perpetrated by clerics (May 3, 2011)
  [Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish]
   
  • Letter of Card. William Levada on the occasion of the presentation of the Circular letter to Episcopal Conferences concerning Guidelines for dealing with cases of sexual abuse of minors perpetrated by clerics
    [Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• "Cardinal Ratzinger’s Influence on the Revision of the Canonical Penal Law System" by Juan Ignacio Arrieta (La Civiltà Cattolica, 4 December 2010)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• "Cardinal Ratzinger and the Revision of the Canonical Penal Law System A crucial role" by Juan Ignacio Arrieta (L'Osservatore Romano, 2 December 2010)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Press Release of the Holy See at the beginning of the Apostolic Visitation in Ireland (November 12, 2010)
  [English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Holy See's Press Release on the Preparatory Meetings for the Apostolic Visitation in Ireland (October 6, 2010)
  [English, Italian]

• Guide to Understanding Basic CDF Procedures concerning Sexual Abuse Allegations
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Press release on the Apostolic Visitation in Ireland (May 31, 2010)
  [English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Communique of the Holy See regarding the Apostolic Visitation of the Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ (May 1st, 2010)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]

• Note of Fr. Federico Lombardi concerning abuses. Following Holy Week, Holding Our Course. (April 9, 2010)
  [English, French, Italian, Spanish]
   
• The New York Times and Pope Benedict XVI: how it looks to an American in the Vatican, by Cardinal William J. Levada (3/26/10)
  [English]
   
• Statement of the Director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., concerning the Murphy Case (3/24/10)
  [English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
   
• Synthesis of the Pope's Letter to the Irish Catholics
  [English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish]
   
• Fr. Lombardi on Pope's Letter to Irish Catholics (March 20, 2010)
  [English, French, German, Italian, Spanish]
   
• Communiqué of the Archdiocese of Munich (3/13/10)
  [German, Italian, Portuguese]
   
• Note of the Director of Vatican Radio (3/13/10)
  [Italian]
   
• Communiqué of the President of the German Episcopal Conference
  [English, Italian, Portuguese]
   
• Intervention of H.E. Msgr. Silvano M. Tomasi (3/10/10)
  [English, Italian, Portuguese]
   
• Declaration of the German Bishops (2/25/10)
  [English]
   
• Article of H.E. Msgr. Giuseppe Versaldi (OR 3/14/10)
  [Italian, Portuguese]
   
• Interview of Msgr. Charles Scicluna (3/13/10)
  [English, French, Italian, Spanish, German]
   
• The Procedure and Praxis of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith regarding Graviora Delicta - Mgr Charles J. Scicluna Promoter of Justice
  [English]
   
• Article by Msgr. J.P. Beal on Crimen Sollicitationis (2007) – © Studia Canonica
  [English]
   
• Unofficial Translation of Crimen Sollicitationis (1962)
  [English]

• Instructio de modo procedendi in causis sollicitationis. Ad omnes Patriarchas, Archiepiscopos, Episcopos aliosque locorum Ordinarios «etiam Ritus Orientalis» (1962)
  [Latin]

  Glossary of terms