VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis on Tuesday issued the most sweeping revision to Catholic Church law in four decades, toughening regulations for clerics who abuse minors and vulnerable adults ...
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 for an “all-out battle” against a crime that should be “erased from the face of the earth”.
The WSW report found at least 497 cases of abuse at the Archdiocese of Munich between the years 1945 and 2019, and mostly involved young males A distraught Pope Francis again pledged justice for ...
Pope Francis has dismissed Michael Jude Zacharias, a former priest of parishes in Mansfield and Fremont who was found guilty ...
A new document from the Vatican outlines Pope Francis’s rejection of gender-affirming surgery, surrogacy and abortion. The ...
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sits in St. Peter's Basilica as he attends the ceremony marking the start of the Holy Year, at the Vatican, Dec. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) BERLIN (AP) — A ...
Pope Francis has effectively stripped US clergyman Theodore McCarrick of his cardinal’s rank following allegations of sexual abuse including against an 11-year-old boy. The Vatican announced on ...
Red shoes, symbolizing violence against women, can be seen in this screen grab from a video from The Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network. For the month of April, the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network is ...
‘The momentum is irreversible.’ More states are removing time limits on child sex abuse lawsuits Advocates say momentum is growing for completely removing the statute of limitations for child ...
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.