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 ...
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 ...
Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document released Monday Dec. 18, 2023 explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that ...
Louisiana State Police are investigating the Archdiocese of New Orleans for suspected past child trafficking by certain ...
Washington's attorney general says the Seattle Archdiocese isn't cooperating in a sex abuse investigation, but church officials disagree SEATTLE -- The Catholic church is refusing to cooperate ...
As Pope Francis moves to cement his legacy, he has opened the Vatican to a new community – transgender sex workers. It is a part of a broader outreach toward the LGBTQ+ community that has ...
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 ...
474) into law, imposing additional ... to the sexual abuse of children. The REPORT Act: Expands reporting obligations to include planned or imminent abuse, as well as sex trafficking, coercion ...
The proposed law would not apply to private schools. "From a values perspective, every person agrees with it," said Sen. Erin Maye Quade, DFL-Apple Valley, who supports the bill. "The concern we ...
More than 60 people were arrested and hundreds of charges were filed in a series of investigations into child sexual abuse in Ontario, Canadian police said Wednesday. Provincial Police Det.