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.
The bill was authored after the faces of female Demopolis Middle School students were superimposed over pornographic images.
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 ...
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 ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
ABC News’ Linsey Davis investigates more than 2,500 claims of abuse. "Everywhere I look, everything that I see, I just see his face," said Reanell Hartley, looking through the barbed wire ...
State Sen. Becky Massey, R-Knoxville, represents Senate District 6, which includes part of Knox County. State Rep. Rebecca Alexander, R-Jonesborough, represents House District 7, which includes ...
R Kelly's challenge against a 20-year sentence for child sex convictions has been quashed by an appeals court. The singer was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison, a Chicago court ruled on ...