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 on Thursday opened a landmark Vatican summit on fighting child sex abuse, calling for “concrete measures” and handing top Catholic bishops a roadmap to tackling paedophilia in the ...
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 ...
after a series of liberal declarations by Pope Francis. The new treatise denounced attempts to obscure the “sexual difference between man and woman” and stated that “any sex-change ...
Images: Zuma Press Composite: Mark Kelly Is Pope Francis trying to close the cafeteria? On an Easter Sunday appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of ...
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 bill was authored after the faces of female Demopolis Middle School students were superimposed over pornographic images.
More states are removing time limits on child sex abuse lawsuits Advocates ... information about alleged child abuse to police or child welfare officials. Pope announces mandate to audit church ...
Chapter 11 has been used to address mass child sex abuse claims for 20 years ... If the bill becomes law, child sexual abuse claims would be allowed in Chapter 11 even if they’d be barred ...
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 ...
In 2019, New York passed the Child Victims Act, a law that changed the statute of ... Statute-of-Limitation Laws Can Leave Few Choices for Child Sex-Abuse Victims. That’s Why These People ...