VATICAN CITY — One afternoon in mid-December, Pope Francis had a meeting that ... the right to an effective remedy.” “Canon ...
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 has written to a group of parents of LGBTQ persons, responding to their criticism of a Vatican document that ...
Pope Francis has ended his conference on the sexual abuse of children by clergy by calling ... Shortly after the conference, the Vatican said it would enact a law to protect minors and vulnerable ...
Pope Francis ... "Any allegation of sexual abuse of a minor by a priest, deacon, staff member or volunteer affiliated with ...
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 ...
The Servites’ web site acknowledges the sex abuse crisis, but doesn’t list its predatory members. But, because Pope Francis ...
Pope Francis has effectively stripped US clergyman Theodore McCarrick of his cardinal’s rank following allegations of sexual abuse including ... University canon law expert, Kurt Martens ...
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.
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 ...
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Tuesday that the state has corroborated more than 1,900 victims’ child sex ... by Pope Francis in March to update and expand a 2019 church law ...