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 ...
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.
“Sometimes church officials did not denounce (the sex abuses ... a groundbreaking new church law requiring all Catholic priests and nuns to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-ups by their ...
an advisory body created by Pope Francis in 2014, has condemned what they described as a failure on the part of Church authorities in abuse prevention, saying they will push leaders to do more.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis presided over a ceremony Saturday to create 21 new cardinals, including key figures at the Vatican and in the field who will help enact his reforms and cement his ...
MARYLAND- A bill expanding the rights of child sex abuse survivors in Maryland is set ... on damages that can be awarded under the law. House Bill One will also repeal the statute of limitations ...
A Billings man already facing local charges alleging sexual abuse has been charged in Washington State with multiple child sex abuse felonies. Aaron Joseph Drake was booked into Yellowstone County ...
VATICAN CITY — (AP) — Pope Francis created 21 new cardinals at a ritual-filled ceremony Saturday, including key figures at the Vatican and in the field who will help enact his reforms and cement his ...
"That is why we are working to tackle the sickening rise of AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery which incites paedophiles to commit more offences and also obstructs law enforcement from ...
Syracuse, N.Y. -- A Syracuse man has been arrested on charges he shared child sex abuse material online, troopers said. The man -- Mohamed Hussein, 23 -- had sexual contact with a minor less than ...
The release of the largely unredacted report comes just days before a new state law goes into effect Oct. 1, removing the statute of limitations on child sex abuse charges and allowing victims to ...