Panama Church Abuse Review Finds Administrative Failures, Catholic News Agency Reports

An inquiry into sexual abuse within the Catholic Church in Panama has concluded that church administrators failed in their handling of abuse allegations, according to OSV News, a Catholic news agency. The outlet described the review as a landmark truth-seeking effort for the country's church.

OSV News reported that the inquiry's findings center on administrative and institutional failures rather than the conduct of any single individual, placing Panama among the countries where the church has commissioned formal examinations of its own record on abuse.

The report's findings, as described by OSV News, follow a pattern seen in similar national reviews elsewhere, in which investigators have documented gaps in record-keeping, oversight and response to complaints. The full report of the inquiry and OSV News' account of it are available at the source link.