Tag: clergy sex abuse
Pope Leo encourages the work of exposing abuses and to be...
Clergy sexual abuse has mutilated the church. It has scourged Christ's body. Like a rock dropped in the water, the ripples stretch out far,...
Top court ruling allows grand injury investigations for clerical abuse for...
New Jersey's top court ruled June 16 that grand juries can be empaneled to investigate clerical sex abuse allegations in that state.
The decision comes...
Statement from Diocese of Wilmington on John Taggart and Christopher Crisona
A former priest and a former teacher of the Diocese of Wilmington have been arrested and charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse occurring...
John Taggart, former priest, and ex-teacher Christopher Crisona charged with sexual...
An 80-year-old former priest of the Diocese of Wilmington and a 57-year-old ex-teacher in local Catholic schools have been charged with sexual abuse of...
Irish Archbishop John Kennedy says goal is to change culture and...
Transparency and truth are of "critical importance" in the work of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors (PCPM) and the Dicastery for...
Archdiocese of Los Angeles reaches $880 million agreement for compensation of...
LOS ANGELES -- The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has reached an agreement in principle worth $880 million to compensate more than a thousand decades-old...
Missouri dioceses — accused of alleged sexual abuse by priests and...
Two federal civil lawsuits, each seeking $75 million, accuse the Missouri dioceses of Springfield-Cape Girardeau and Jefferson City of covering up clergy sexual abuse...
Archbishop Broglio appoints survivor, professor, others to USCCB board that works...
A retired FBI agent will head up the U.S. bishops' consultative safe environment body, while a clergy abuse survivor, a nursing professor and two...
USCCB’s Review Board: We must keep children at center of all...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- "God calls us to remain vigilant" in caring for clerical abuse survivors and preventing further abuse, said the outgoing chair of...
Louisiana Supreme Court extends ‘look back law’ to 2027, reversing earlier...
NEW ORLEANS -- In a 5-2 ruling June 12, the Louisiana Supreme Court reversed its earlier decision to scrap a "look back law" for...