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 ...
December, Pope Francis had a meeting that wasn’t on his official agenda or otherwise recorded, that underscored the utter ...
A distraught Pope Francis again pledged justice for the victims of sexual abuse by members of the Catholic ... advances which recent reforms to canon law have meant, which hold abusers accountable ...
Pope Francis approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples under certain circumstances, the Vatican announced Monday. Why it matters: The rule change affirms and expands on a progressive ...
Cardinal Sean O'Malley was re-appointed to lead the child protection panel Pope Francis has announced the renewal of the Church's panel tasked with combating sexual abuse of children, in the wake ...
Pope announces ... has pledged to toughen laws on the rape of children after a massive online movement has seen hundreds of victims share accounts about sexual abuse within their families.
But the Pope is known for having more modern ideas about social issues, like supporting civil union laws for same-sex couples and being against laws that make being gay illegal. No matter how ...
ROME (AP) — The clergy sexual abuse scandal is slowly ... Rugolo was a seminarian at the time the abuse began. The Vatican’s in-house laws at the time only called for canonical sanctions ...
A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany’s Munich diocese on Thursday faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of four cases when he was archbishop in the 1970s and 1980s. The law ...
For four hours, local students and crime enthusiasts were enthralled and brought into the minds of the law enforcement officers who prosecuted David Pope, the stepfather of two-year-old Hodgie who ...
WARSAW (Reuters) - Pope ... sexual abuse committed by some clergy against minors, his representatives in the country said on Saturday. Andrzej Dziuba, a bishop in Lowicz, had not informed law ...
The lawsuit also alleges wrongful termination in retaliation for reporting illegal payroll practices. Counsel have not yet appeared for the defendants. The case is Pope v. Phoenix Transportation ...