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Keith Flores says he never heard from Catholic church superiors to whom the priest reported his transgressions in 1999This article contains descriptions of child abuseKeith Flores was surprised to learn that he was named in a statement in which a pries…
Lawrence Hecker confessed to superiors he had molested multiple teenagers but he was never prosecuted, secret documents showThe last four Roman Catholic archbishops of New Orleans went to shocking lengths to conceal a confessed serial child molester wh…
Catholic archdiocese gives New Orleans DA files on Lawrence Hecker, accused of raping child decades agoThe second-oldest archdiocese in the US has handed over “voluminous documents” involving a retired Roman Catholic priest – and accused serial predato…
Prayer will instead be said in his suite after chief surgeon says Francis should avoid strain on abdomen Pope Francis’s recovery from surgery is going well but doctors have advised him not to deliver his Sunday blessing from a hospital balcony to avoid…
Mac McCall’s molestation case led to conviction of Catholic cleric and now he hopes to help children, the elderly and those recovering from substance abuseAfter pressing a criminal case which led to the conviction of a Catholic cleric who admitted mole…
Richard Trahant, fined $400,000 for alerting high school about priest, accuses law firm of trying to harm his reputationAn American attorney fined $400,000 for alerting a Roman Catholic high school that a priest stationed there admitted fondling and ki…
High court of Australia is considering a NSW court’s permanent stay in a case brought by a woman who alleges she was abused as a 14-year-oldFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or…
The Guardian, the Associated Press and state prosecutors contend that there’s legitimate public interest in documents dealing with Lawrence HeckerTwo national US media organizations and Louisiana state prosecutors have joined efforts to secure the publ…
Pontiff appears to reference a woman who drew pilgrims to a statue near Rome she claimed shed tears of bloodApparitions of the Virgin Mary are “not always real”, Pope Francis has said, in what appears to be an indirect reference to a woman who drew tho…
Pro-choice groups condemn rare enforcement of country’s total ban on terminationsA woman in Malta has been charged in court for having an abortion, in a rare enforcement of the country’s total ban on terminations.The Women’s Rights Foundation of Malta …