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 ...

Sex abuse and cover-up scandals have shredded the Catholic Church's reputation and have been a major challenge for the pope, who has passed a series of measures aimed at holding the Church hierarchy ...

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 ...

Pope Francis on Saturday extended a 2019 law to fight sexual abuse in the Church by making lay Catholic leaders responsible for acts committed under their watch in Vatican-approved bodies. A letter, ...

McSwain, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, last month asked the U.S. bishops to preserve their files on sex-abuse complaints ... in a court of law.

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 ...

Five women allegedly abused by Marko Rupnik, a priest, artist and former Vatican consultor, have written to Pope Francis complaining his pledges of “zero tolerance’’ of sexual abuse are a ...

It is thought to be the first time that Pope Francis has acknowledged the sexual abuse of nuns by the clergy. He said the Church was attempting to address the problem but said it was “still ...

“Please let us talk about this, too,” Pope Francis urged the group of professionals from a variety of fields working to ...

Addressing a delegation of the Latin American Research and Training Commission for the Protection of Minors (CEPROME), Pope Francis highlights the progress made by the Church in eradicating the ...