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 ...

Since his election in 2013, Pope Francis has been increasingly challenged to react to decades-long sexual abuse scandals involving Catholic priests. In June 2021, he updated the canon law addressing ...

Seeking justice for the sexual abuse he suffered as a teenager and later ... efforts to hold him accountable. He even wrote to Pope Francis asking for his help. When he heard Joseph Hart, the ...

A sweeping study of sex abuse by priests and ... being forced to do so by subpoena in abuse cases because it is a sovereign state under international law. A few exceptions have been made in ...

A sweeping, year-long study of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and others in Switzerland published Tuesday has turned up ...

By Ruth Graham Theodore McCarrick, the highest-ranking Catholic cleric in the United States to face charges in the church’s ongoing sexual abuse crisis, is not competent to stand trial ...

He still faces a second criminal sexual ... 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.

“Europol could continue to assist national law enforcement in criminal investigations concerning such reports,” the compromise text says. Europol should also “continue to expand with the ...

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 ...

Emotional abuse is underrecognized as abuse even though psychological violence — more than physical violence or sexual violence — is the strongest predictor of post-traumatic stress disorder ...

eligious leaders and sports coaches could be banned from having sex with 16 and 17-year-olds in their care under plans to expand child abuse laws. The move would close a legal loophole under so ...