VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking law Thursday ... to become their spokesman when they first adopted measures to combat child sex abuse in 2002. The law goes into effect June 1 ...
Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and to say that laypeople who hold church office also can be ...
December, Pope Francis had a meeting that wasn’t on his official agenda or otherwise recorded, that underscored the utter ...
Pope Francis has dismissed Michael Jude Zacharias, a former priest of parishes in Mansfield and Fremont who was found guilty ...
As Louisiana State Police continues to investigate the Archdiocese of New Orleans for its coverup of child sexual abuse ...
Cardinal Sean O'Malley was re-appointed to lead the child protection panel Pope Francis has announced the renewal of the Church's panel tasked with combating sexual abuse of children, in the wake ...
Pope Francis on Thursday opened a landmark Vatican summit on fighting child sex abuse, calling for “concrete ... in the pipeline would see canon law “tweaked”. But the suggestion that ...
Francis underlined the advances which recent reforms to canon law ... abuse scandal to impact the Catholic Church. Earlier this week, the 94-year-old former pope denied he knew about allegations ...
The Catholic church’s transparency on accusations of sexual abuse by clergy members, including the Rev. Mark Santo, remains ...
The bill was authored after the faces of female Demopolis Middle School students were superimposed over pornographic images.
They were not really parts of the community and they didn't comply with the mandatory abuse reporting law. I mean, even now, they don't comply with it. So, this is very troubling. If you're a ...