VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis issued a groundbreaking law Thursday requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy sexual abuse and cover-up by their superiors to church ...
The report is the latest child abuse scandal to impact the Catholic Church. Earlier this week, the 94-year-old former pope denied he knew about allegations of sex abuse at the Mexico-based ...
FILE - Pope Francis prays at the beginning of the third day of a Vatican’s conference on dealing with sex abuse by priests, at the Vatican, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019.
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.
A sexual abuse scandal at a Pittsfield, Massachusetts private all-girls boarding school is growing. In March, Miss Hall’s School graduate Melissa Fares came forward about allegedly being preyed ...
President Biden has signed the REPORT Act (S.474) into law, imposing additional obligations on online service providers to report material related to the sexual abuse of children. The REPORT Act ...
Lincoln Singh was 13 years old when Bagley High School resource officer Neil Henry Dolan started pulling the seventh grader out of class and sexually abusing Lincoln in his office. Last year, the ...
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.