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 has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and to say that laypeople who hold church office also can be ...
In a Reel posted on her Instagram on Monday (March 4), The Voice alum shared her distress at Tennessee’s new law ... Pope said. “Obviously this is an attack on same-sex couples.” ...
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.
Pope Francis has dismissed Michael Jude Zacharias, a former priest of parishes in Mansfield and Fremont who was found guilty ...
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 ...
The bill was authored after the faces of female Demopolis Middle School students were superimposed over pornographic images.
BERLIN (Reuters) - A lawsuit brought against an alleged paedophile priest in Germany is seeking to establish whether former Pope Benedict ... case of child sexual abuse, the plaintiff's lawyer ...