A new independently-operated victims compensation fund has launched in California to address child sexual abuse claims against Catholic priests in several dioceses in the state.
A sexual assault lawsuit filed against Catholic organizations in Guam say an altar boy was molested by a priest there in 1979.
Hundreds of child sex abuse lawsuits were filed in New York on the first day of a law which extends the statute of limitations for such cases and suspends them…
A new lawsuit blames a Pennsylvania diocese and two Bishops for failing to prevent the repeated rape of a young parishioner decades ago.
A former altar boy has filed a sex abuse lawsuit against a New Jersey diocese where he says a former priest abused him for years.
Pope Francis has issued a new edict requiring Vatican officials to report all incidents of sexual abuse immediately, and says the edict should be a guide to the behavior of…
The West Virginia attorney general is suing the Catholic church in West Virginia, saying it knowingly employed priests who were accused of sexual abuse against children.
A new lawsuit accuses the Archdiocese of Newark in New Jersey of putting an accused child sex offender in charge of youth ministry, where he was allowed to seek out…
A class action lawsuit filed against a Roman Catholic diocese in New York claims the church knew about sexual assaults, torture and rape committed against children by its priests for…
A four-day Vatican conference on sex abuse within the Catholic Church ended in few concrete changes, critics say.