VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis on Tuesday ... slack in the interpretation of penal law," where mercy was sometimes put before justice. Sexual abuse of minors was put under a new section ...
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 has ended his conference on the sexual abuse of children by clergy by calling ... Shortly after the conference, the Vatican said it would enact a law to protect minors and vulnerable ...
A distraught Pope Francis again pledged justice for the victims of sexual abuse by members of the Catholic ... advances which recent reforms to canon law have meant, which hold abusers accountable ...
A new document from the Vatican outlines Pope Francis’s rejection of gender-affirming surgery, surrogacy and abortion. The ...
Pope announces ... has pledged to toughen laws on the rape of children after a massive online movement has seen hundreds of victims share accounts about sexual abuse within their families.
Pope Francis ... "Any allegation of sexual abuse of a minor by a priest, deacon, staff member or volunteer affiliated with ...
Pope Francis has effectively stripped US clergyman Theodore McCarrick of his cardinal’s rank following allegations of sexual abuse including ... University canon law expert, Kurt Martens ...
(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) BERLIN (AP) — A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany's Munich diocese on Thursday faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI's handling of four cases when he was ...
(CNS/ThePopeVideo.org) Governments must eliminate laws discriminating against women and help guarantee women's human rights, Pope Francis said. "Let us respect women. Let us respect their dignity ...
A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany’s Munich diocese on Thursday faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of four cases when he was archbishop in the 1970s and 1980s. The law ...
Religious leaders and sports coaches could be banned from having sex with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care under plans to expand child abuse laws. The move would close a legal loophole under so ...