VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding Catholic hierarchs accountable for covering up cases of sex abuse, expanding the norms to cover lay ...
Pope Francis has updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding senior churchmen accountable for covering up cases of sex abuse Lima left the Jesuit Society, where he was a teacher in schools and ...
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 ...
The American church delegation said the issue of a possible resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law, Archbishop of Boston, once spoken of as the next Pope but now accused of mishandling sex abuse ...
Pope Francis plans to meet victims of clergy sexual abuse during his five-day visit to Portugal in August to coincide with ...
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.
Legacy of Karol Wojtyła under scrutiny as Poland comes to terms with scale of sexual abuse in Catholic church With under six months to go before a parliamentary election that is expected to be ...
Former Pope Benedict XVI asked for forgiveness from victims of sexual abuse in Catholic churches in a statement published Tuesday. “I can only express to all the victims of sexual abuse my profound ...
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Tuesday that the state has corroborated more than 1,900 victims’ child sex abuse ... Pope Francis in March to update and expand a 2019 church law ...
In 2019, the General Assembly unanimously passed landmark legislation that sought to recognize the challenges young sex abuse victims face in coming forward. The law temporarily allowed victims of ...
In combination with these funds, lawyers and law firms that profit from sex abuse cases should have to provide a certain percentage of work pro-bono (free) to eligible victims to ensure more cases ...
Legacy of Karol Wojtyła under scrutiny as Poland comes to terms with scale of sexual abuse in Catholic church With under six months to go before a parliamentary election that is expected to be ...
