In December 2024, Congress passed the bipartisan Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, calling for a study by the National Academies of Sciences into the state of youth in institutional programs.

In what is being widely reported as a landmark human rights decision, Italy’s Constitutional Court in May 2025 struck down ...

Abuse experts and survivors express a mix of tentative hopes and low expectations for how Pope Leo might address disciplining ...

A Garrison man accused in federal court of possessing child sexual abuse material pleaded guilty to two charges under an agreement with prosecutors. Thomas McCullough pleaded guilty Wednesday to ...

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” hosts Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell and producer Ricardo da Silva, S.J., answer ...

Lawmakers advanced both a constitutional amendment and a traditional bill in a bid to create a two-year window for lawsuits.

I got more and more reclusive.” “I just lost a lot of my friends. And the friends I did have, I wasn’t that keen on.” “Someone could say something to me, and I’d just snap.… I can’t help it.” “I think ...

Simultaneous raids in 19 states dismantle a massive network exploiting Chinese women in illegal “massage parlors,” with 46 arrests and more than 70 victims liberated. Over 70 Chinese women are ...