sexual abuse

Pope Francis Issues Rules Requiring Priests And Nuns To Report Abuse

Merrit Kennedy

The papal decree also sets up new procedures to hold more-senior church authorities such as bishops accountable for committing abuse or for covering up the crimes of others.

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI arrives at St Peter's basilica in 2015. Benedict has stayed largely silent on the church's sex abuse scandal for the past six years.

Pope Benedict Breaks 6-Year Silence To Comment On Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal

Tom Gjelten

Two popes speaking simultaneously on the most divisive issue facing the church is remarkable. Benedict's letter may well raise concerns that the Vatican can no longer speak with a single voice.

"The Vatican is a world of men; some truly are men of God," says Sister Catherine Aubin, a French Dominican nun who teaches at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas in Rome. "Others have been ruined by power. The key to these secrets and silence is ... abuse of power. They climb up a career staircase toward evil."

After Years Of Abuse By Priests, #NunsToo Are Speaking Out

Sylvia Poggioli

A #NunsToo movement has emerged from #MeToo, as Roman Catholic nuns start speaking out about sexual abuse by priests. Cases of rape and forced abortion have begun coming to light.

South Florida Domestic Workers Saw Themselves In Academy Award-winning Mexican Film 'Roma'

Alfonso Cuarón’s Academy Award-winning Mexican film “Roma,” has shined a long overdue spotlight on the world’s domestic workers.In his acceptance speech…

The Chicago Police Department provided a handout of R. Kelly's mug shot after his arrest on Feb. 22 on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.

R. Kelly Out On Bail In Sexual Abuse Case

Anastasia Tsioulcas

The R&B singer appeared in court in Chicago on Monday morning. He has been charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse. A judge had set his bond at $1 million on Saturday.

Federal Prosecutors Broke Law In Jeffrey Epstein Case, Judge Rules

A judge ruled Thursday that federal prosecutors — among them, U.S. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta — broke federal law when they signed a plea agreement…

ProPublica: Miami-Dade Police Failed To Investigate Sexual Assault At Migrant Children Shelter

More than 15,000 children are being held in migrant children shelters around the country. A recent ProPublica investigation found some kids are reporting…

Trump Labor Secretary Out Of Running For Attorney General After Miami Herald Report

Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta is out of the running to be President Donald Trump’s attorney general following a Miami Herald report that he oversaw a…

"I am sorry for the late notice, but in fact this was conveyed to me late yesterday afternoon," Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Monday, postponing moves that had been touted as concrete steps in response to the clergy sexual abuse scandal.

Vatican Insists U.S. Bishops Put Off Vote On Their Response To Sexual Abuse Crisis

Bill Chappell

"At the insistence of the Holy See, we will not be voting" on a standard of conduct and other actions, said Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Education

How To Use Your 'I Mean Business' Voice And Other Lessons From Senator's Abuse Prevention Curriculum

Jessica Bakeman

State Sen. Lauren Book will be training 50 Miami-Dade elementary school counselors in recognizing and preventing child sexual abuse in Doral on…

Chilean demonstrators light candles during an August vigil in Santiago that protested the sex abuse scandal roiling the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis Defrocks 2 Chilean Priests In Deepening Sex Abuse Scandal

Colin Dwyer

The two high-ranking retired clerics, Archbishop Francisco José Cox Huneeus and Bishop Marco Antonio Órdenes Fernández, were expelled from the priesthood because of alleged "manifest abuse of minors."

Dr. Denis Mukwege, a gynecologist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, treats victims of rape, tending to their physical and emotional needs. The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Mukwege and to Nadia Murad for their efforts to combat wartime sexual assault.

'Dr. Miracle' Is The Co-Recipient Of The Nobel Peace Prize

Jackson Sinnenberg

That's what they call Dr. Denis Mukwege, a gynecologist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo who's treated thousands of women who were raped during conflict. He is a co-recipient of the 2018 prize.