NFL team's deep Catholic ties behind role in abuse crisis
Why would an NFL team, even one called the Saints, strike a behind-the-scenes alliance with the Roman Catholic Church on an issue as emotionally fraught as clergy sex abuse? It's a question even die-hard Saints fans in this heavily Catholic city are asking, and the ...
India court orders Jan. 22 hanging of four men guilty in deadly 2012 gang rape aboard moving bus
Four men sentenced to death for the gang rape and murder of a woman on a New Delhi bus in an attack that sent shock waves across the world will be hanged on Jan. 22, an Indian court ruled on Tuesday. The four men were ...
Los Angeles prosecutors indicted Harvey Weinstein on Monday on sex crime charges just hours after the former film producer appeared in a New York court for the start of his rape trial, which has become a focal point for the #MeToo movement. Weinstein had been ...
In Greenland, the scourge of child sexual abuse has emerged as a pressing concern with nearly 1 in 3 having suffered abuse in their childhood, and efforts to combat it hampered by a persistent conspiracy of silence. The sparsely populated autonomous Danish territory is confronted ...
Kyoto court hands man suspended sentence for forcing women into sex trade to clear 'debts'
On Tuesday, a court sentenced a 30-year-old man to 2½ years in prison, suspended for four years, for pushing women into the sex trade to pay off "debts." The Kyoto District Court found Yutaro Ogawa, founder and leader of the group responsible, guilty of forcing ...
South Korean president calls for investigation into K-Pop's sex scandal
South Korean President Moon Jae-in called for an investigation into a sex and corruption scandal involving Seoul's nightclubs after a K-Pop star underwent questioning last week about alleged links to prostitution. Moon said the case includes "strong allegations of consent, backing and favors" for clubs ...
Chilean court orders Catholic Church to pay damages over priest's decades of abuse of trio: report
Chile's Court of Appeal has ordered the office of Santiago's Archbishop to pay 450 million pesos ($650,000) to three men who alleged they were sexually abused for decades by Chilean priest Fernando Karadima, a local newspaper reported on Sunday. Citing a copy of a leaked ...
Taiwan expels Texan running 3D-printed gun company who is accused of paying teen for sex
A Texan running a 3D-printed gun company who had flown to Taiwan after being accused of paying an underage girl for sex was detained in Taipei on Friday and ordered to leave the island after his U.S. passport was annulled, officials said. Cody Wilson, 30, ...
Conservative media move to front line of battle to undermine Pope Francis
Last March, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano dined on the outskirts of Rome at the home of a conservative Italian Catholic journalist. Over pasta, fish and white wine, the prelate poured out his concern for the future of the Roman Catholic Church. It was the start ...
Former top Vatican official calls on Pope to resign amid abuse crisis
A former top Vatican official accused Pope Francis of having known of allegations of sex abuse by a prominent U.S. cardinal for five years before accepting his resignation last month and he called on the pontiff to resign. In an 11-page letter given to conservative ...
Catholics 'sickened' by Pennsylvania sex abuse report and church's coverup but stand by their faith
Many churchgoers said they were sickened and saddened by a grand jury report detailing widespread sexual abuse by hundreds of priests in Pennsylvania but they would not let the Roman Catholic Church's coverup dissuade them from their faith. Nearly 200 parishioners filled almost all the ...
Pope promises 'never again' to sex abuse in Chile, reopens investigation
Pope Francis on Thursday promised Chilean Catholics scarred by a culture of clergy sexual abuse that "never again" would the Church ignore them or the coverup of abuse in their country, where a widespread scandal has devastated its credibility. The pope issued the comments in ...
