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 ...
They were not really parts of the community and they didn't comply with the mandatory abuse reporting law. I mean, even now, they don't comply with it. So, this is very troubling. If you're a ...
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 ...
The Servites’ web site acknowledges the sex abuse crisis, but doesn’t list its predatory members. But, because Pope Francis lets ... education or law enforcement,” Bishop Thomas McManus ...
The Servites’ web site acknowledges the sex abuse crisis, but doesn’t list its predatory members. servite.org But, because Pope Francis lets ... education or law enforcement,” Bishop Thomas ...
sexual abuse and the abuse of women. After substantial revision in recent months, the text was approved March 25 by Pope Francis, who ordered its publication. In its most eagerly anticipated ...
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.
After substantial revision in recent months, it was approved March 25 by Pope Francis ... "It follows that any sex-change intervention, as a rule, risks threatening the unique dignity the person ...
Pope Francis has introduced sweeping new rules for reporting and investigating clerical sex abuse in the Catholic Church. The new norms were issued Thursday in a motu proprio, which is a law decreed ...
On April 10, Pope Francis met with a leader of Brazil ... them child protection cases – has lost his licence to practise law. An Ontario senior thought he called Geek Squad for help with ...
Bishops who are negligent in dealing with sexual-abuse cases can be removed from office, according to a decree from Pope Francis. The pontiff issued an Apostolic Letter on Saturday. It sets forth ...
Her case exists because of a new law in Maryland removing the civil statute of limitations for child sex abuse ... of the abuse.” That speech followed an apology for abuse from an international ...