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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
sexual abuse and the abuse of women. The text, published by the Vatican doctrine office on Monday, states that attempts to obscure “the sexual difference between man and woman,” including ...
A new document from the Vatican outlines Pope Francis’s rejection of gender-affirming surgery, surrogacy and abortion. The ...
A sexual abuse scandal at a Pittsfield ... 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.
The Servites’ web site acknowledges the sex abuse crisis, but doesn’t list its predatory members. But, because Pope Francis lets ... education or law enforcement,” Bishop Thomas McManus ...
The laws include measures designed to combat human trafficking and further prevent child sexual abuse. They were among ... such as in the case of a kidnapping. Expand the definition of child ...
Modernity is causing a drop-off in people identifying as Catholic, but the Polish clergy also bears some responsibility ...
The right increasingly uses gender as a way to externalise hatred of vulnerable people, argues Judith Butler in her new book ...
McSwain, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, last month asked the U.S. bishops to preserve their files on sex-abuse complaints ... in a court of law.