Pope Francis has updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding senior churchmen accountable for covering up cases of sex abuse Lima left the Jesuit Society, where he was a teacher in schools and ...
Francis has created a commission on child molestation prevention and has tightened church laws addressing clerical sexual abuse. The pope has been grappling with the global sexual abuse crisis ...
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 ...
“The sexual abuse of ... s love,” the pope said. To address this failure, he said he had confirmed that the decree “Vos Estis Lux Mundi” is henceforth a universal law of the Catholic ...
The American church delegation said the issue of a possible resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law, Archbishop of Boston, once spoken of as the next Pope but now accused of mishandling sex abuse ...
Legacy of Karol Wojtyła under scrutiny as Poland comes to terms with scale of sexual abuse ... Law and Justice (PiS) party arrived for a session in March holding photographs of the late pope ...
Former Pope Benedict XVI asked for forgiveness from victims of sexual abuse in Catholic churches in a statement published Tuesday. “I can only express to all the victims of sexual abuse my profound ...
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis urged ... time that communicating laws and guidelines imposed by the Vatican to churches in other regions was a challenge. “The sexual abuse of minors by clergy ...
Earlier this year, the pope made permanent his signature clergy sex abuse law, Vos Estis, which was established to hold bishops and religious superiors accountable for abuse that they commit or ...
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Pope Francis ... about alleged cases of abuse. The Bolivian Episcopal Conference said Bertomeu’s visit is not directly related to the recent sex abuse allegations ...
2024 in Napa County Superior Court on multiple felony charges of sexual abuse. Casas, who has been held without bail in the Napa County jail since his arrest Oct. 1 at his Pope Valley home ...
Pope Francis has sent ... about alleged cases of abuse. The Bolivian Episcopal Conference said Bertomeu's visit is not directly related to the recent sex abuse allegations but had been planned ...
