1:22 Sex abuse victims sue Catholic Church with new NY law Pope Francis issued in May 2019 a groundbreaking new church law requiring all Catholic priests and nuns around the world to report clergy ...
Maine’s attorney general thinks a 2021 Maine law, which retroactively ... 2023 law that expands on previous efforts to remove statutes of limitations for claims of child sex abuse.
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 ...
A group of Catholic Church abuse victims and their advocates on Wednesday called on Pope Francis to enforce "zero tolerance" against clerical sex abuse, after completing a six-day pilgrimage to Rome ...
Later, the Vatican issued a report saying that Pope ... the law in those states freezes the statutes of limitation for non-residents who leave the state. Many victims of clergy sex abuse that ...
A study into sexual abuse ... child sex abuse in the Catholic Church will on Thursday be published in Germany, with former pope Benedict XVI among those in the spotlight. The report by law firm ...
America First Legal, Schaerr Jaffee, and Joel Ard recently filed a lawsuit against Washington Governor Jay Inslee to block enforcement of S.B. 5599, which allows shelters to provide sex transition ...
“Under Massachusetts law, the case can’t go forward,” Traub said. McCarrick was the first U.S. cardinal and only the second U.S. bishop to be charged with abuse. His accuser in the ...
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.
The man told authorities that McCarrick was close to his family when he was growing up and that the abuse ... protecting sex offender priests, including the late cardinal Bernard Law.
A Massachusetts judge on Wednesday found a defrocked Roman Catholic cardinal not competent to stand trial in a sex abuse case. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick ... and suffers significant cognitive ...
Later, the Vatican issued a report saying that Pope John Paul II ... took place because the law in those states freezes the statutes of limitation for non-residents who leave the state. Many victims ...