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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sacramento City Unified and the city of Sacramento have settled lawsuits totaling more than $52 million related to sexual abuse at an elementary school after-school program a decade ago, the ...
Iraq's parliament has passed a bill criminalising same-sex relationships with jail terms of between 10 and 15 years. Transgender people could also be sent to prison for between one and three years ...