A Nebraska judge on Friday gave Catholic institutions in the state until at least March 12 to comply with 400 subpoenas issued by the state attorney general Tuesday, agreeing it would have been impossible to produce the records requested by the AG’s March 1 deadline.
Read morePope Francis opened a landmark sex abuse prevention summit Thursday by warning senior Catholic figures that the faithful are demanding concrete action against predator priests and not just words of condemnation. Victims then told the bishops of the searing emotional pain of their abuse.
Read moreWomen who said former University of Southern California gynecologist George Tyndall sexually abused them settled their claims for $215 million, ushering in an era of wide-ranging reforms at the university.
Read moreSeven years after Jerry Sandusky was convicted of child molestation and sentenced to decades behind bars, an appeals court has ordered a resentencing hearing for the former Penn State assistant football coach whose crimes have cost the university a fortune and triggered changes to state law.
Read moreIt was a sight never seen before in France: A Roman Catholic Church cardinal walked into a courtroom Monday to face allegations that he covered up a priest’s sexual abuse.
Read moreLawyers for three Arkansas sheriff’s deputies accused of privacy violations over the release of records about sex abuse claims against “19 Kids and Counting” reality TV star Josh Duggar argued Wednesday before the Eighth Circuit that they are entitled to qualified immunity.
Read morePope Francis has removed two cardinals from his informal cabinet after they were implicated in the Catholic Church’s sex abuse and cover-up scandal, shedding embarrassing advisers ahead of a high-stakes Vatican summit on abuse early next year.
Read moreThe Vatican has launched an investigation into a small Chilean religious order of nuns after some sisters denounced sexual abuse at the hands of priests and mistreatment by their superiors.
Read moreThe Texas prosecutor who led a search of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston on Wednesday for a sex abuse case said Thursday it will take weeks to go through the records seized.
Read moreJust as jury selection was about to begin, the Los Angeles School District agreed to pay $5 million to settle a case with a former student whose math teacher sexually abused her when she was in middle school.
Read moreThe University of Southern California agreed Friday to pay $215 million to settle a federal class action on claims a former campus gynecologist sexually abused students over several years.
Read moreA former Catholic priest has been extradited from Morocco to the United States to face federal child sex abuse charges in New Mexico, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office announcement Friday.
Read morePope Francis accepted the resignation of a U.S. bishop Thursday and authorized an investigation into allegations he sexually harassed adults, adding awkward drama to an audience with U.S. church leaders over the abuse and cover-up scandal roiling the Catholic Church.
Read moreA former student of a scandal-plagued South Carolina school sued producers of a documentary who altered his yearbook image to illustrate allegations of sexual abuse cover-ups.
Read moreA federal judge denied in part the Boy Scouts’ motion for summary judgment in multiple former members’ constructive fraud claims stemming from allegations of sexual abuse by an adult male volunteer.
Read moreA former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been arrested in New York on a sex abuse charge.
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The Vatican says Pope Francis is expected to meet with victims of sexual abuse during his weekend visit to Ireland and speak out about the problem.
Read moreThe Vatican expressed “shame and sorrow” Thursday over a scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report about clergy who raped and molested children in six dioceses in that state, calling the abuse “criminally and morally reprehensible” and saying Pope Francis wants to eradicate “this tragic horror.”
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