Sex Abuse

The clergy-penitent law is virtually a "get out of jail free card" for clerics

Boopac Shakur, real name Robert Wayne Lee, died Friday night in Pontiac after being shot in a confrontation

Theodore McCarrick was one of the Roman Catholic Church’s highest-ranking clergymen: he was a cardinal, and also the archbishop of Washington DC. But now, he’s a disgraced 93-year-old man and the only cardinal to have ever faced sex abuse charges....

A Queens mom revealed jarring details of her 5-year-old daughter’s interactions with a 75-year-old stranger. It is part of a sickening case of abduction and sexual abuse where she acknowledged leaving the child alone with a predator. Speaking to the New York...

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul released on Tuesday a 696-page report that revealed how rampant child sex abuse was among Catholic clergy within the state: more than 450 clergyman abused over 1,900 children over a period of 90 years. More...

The sexual abuse scandal roiling the Catholic Church, although mostly under the radar in the recent past, has not gone away. In California--and elsewhere--the lawsuits are mounting — middle-aged men, saying they were sexually assaulted as children by a Boy...

In the wake of the Vatican Summit, that proved to be ineffectual and disappointing, and the cynical refusal of Pope Francis to acknowledge the extent of sex abuse in the Catholic Church, we need to ask ourselves some hard questions...