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.
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 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 ...
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 ...
The bill was authored after the faces of female Demopolis Middle School students were superimposed over pornographic images.
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 ...
Review and Outlook: 'The Cass Review' shifts the transgender debate back to medicine and science, in contrast to the ideological conformity found in U.S. medical associations. Images: Zuma Press ...
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 ...
A Seaside man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a series of sex crimes beginning in 1987. John Charles Moore, 57, pleaded not guilty to one count of ...
The firm's moves are consistent with a slew of large law firms making staff and associate cuts in 2023, as firms focused on efficiency, outsourcing and productivity in a year of declining demand.