VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking law Thursday requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-up by their superiors to church ...
Earlier this week, the 94-year-old former pope denied he knew about allegations of sex abuse at the Mexico-based Legionaries of Christ Catholic religious order.
MADRID (AP) — The Portuguese Catholic Church said Thursday it has unanimously agreed to pay some form of compensation to victims of sex abuse by clergy. The country's Bishops Conference said ...
The Rev. Mark Santo at St. Philip High School in Chicago in the 1960s. St. Philip High School yearbook As a new Catholic priest in Chicago in the early 1960s and member of the church’s Servite ...
For Deanna Hampton, last week was all about confronting the past and the legacy of rampant sexual abuse within the Catholic Church and trying to ensure that families don’t suffer in the future.
St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City last year. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images) VATICAN CITY — A highly anticipated Vatican document released Monday offered something of an olive branch to church ...
The bill was authored after the faces of female Demopolis Middle School students were superimposed over pornographic images.
‘The momentum is irreversible.’ More states are removing time limits on child sex abuse lawsuits Advocates say momentum is growing for completely removing the statute of limitations for child ...
The Archdiocese of New York may be forced into bankruptcy if its main insurer is allowed to go without financial responsibility in thousands of child sexual abuse lawsuits, victims’ attorneys ...
Chapter 11 has been used to address mass child sex abuse claims for 20 years and as a vehicle for asbestos and opioid mass torts before that. It began with individual dioceses of the Catholic ...
A sexual abuse scandal at a Pittsfield, Massachusetts private all-girls boarding school is growing. In March, Miss Hall’s School graduate Melissa Fares came forward about allegedly being preyed ...
Disgraced music icon R Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison in Chicago on child sex convictions, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. Jurors in 2022 convicted the Grammy Award ...