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 ...
Earlier this week, the 94-year-old former pope denied he knew about allegations of sex abuse at the Mexico-based Legionaries of Christ Catholic religious order.
St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City last year. (Patrick Smith/Getty Images) VATICAN CITY — A highly anticipated Vatican document released Monday offered something of an olive branch to church ...
The bill was authored after the faces of female Demopolis Middle School students were superimposed over pornographic images.
The Rev. Mark Santo at St. Philip High School in Chicago in the 1960s. St. Philip High School yearbook As a new Catholic priest in Chicago in the early 1960s and member of the church’s Servite ...
Chapter 11 has been used to address mass child sex abuse claims for 20 years and as a vehicle for asbestos and opioid mass torts before that. It began with individual dioceses of the Catholic ...
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 ...
Disgraced music icon R Kelly was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison in Chicago on child sex convictions, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. Jurors in 2022 convicted the Grammy Award ...
The firm's moves are consistent with a slew of large law firms making staff and associate cuts in 2023, as firms focused on efficiency, outsourcing and productivity in a year of declining demand.
An Omaha substitute teacher accused of the sexual abuse of a 17-year-old student appeared in court for the first time Tuesday and was ordered held on $25,000 bail. Erin Ward Erin Ward, 45, who ...
State Sen. Becky Massey, R-Knoxville, represents Senate District 6, which includes part of Knox County. State Rep. Rebecca Alexander, R-Jonesborough, represents House District 7, which includes ...
R Kelly's challenge against a 20-year sentence for child sex convictions has been quashed by an appeals court. The singer was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison, a Chicago court ruled on ...