Five North Texas men have been arrested and are facing federal charges related to distribution and possession of child ...

The law set off a wave of child sex abuse litigation that has pushed some public institutions to the brink of financial ...

Six weeks before American Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the activist group Survivors Network of those Abused ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, has something in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy. He’s been in positions of ...

Pope Leo XIV is facing criticism from survivors over his record on clergy sexual abuse while he served in Chicago and Peru.

How Leo confronts the lingering global crisis could be of particular interest to Catholics in the Philadelphia region.

Over a three-day period last week, 174 former Boy Scouts filed sex abuse lawsuits against the six, mid-level councils that ...

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) is urging the new pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, to create a "universal zero ...

The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests is calling for the new pope to impose a zero-tolerance policy.

Pope Leo XIV's successor as bishop of Chiclayo in northern Peru on Friday rejected allegations that the new pontiff ever ...

Weldon Needham, 40, was found guilty of one count of continuous sexual abuse of child and three counts of sexual abuse of a ...

With the stacked sentences totaling 70 years, he would need to live to be 120-years-old to be eligible for release.