The Catholic Church still has a major problem: A Roman Catholic priest in Germany has admitted to 280 counts of sexually abusing three boys over a several-year period. The 46-year-old priest, who has been suspended, went on trial Thursday at the state court in Braunschweig. The dapd news agency reported that he showed no remorse. […]
While there is a lot of focus on the school itself, someone else needs to be question about the handling of the sex abuse at Penn State. That person is the now governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett. Corbett served as the attorney general of Pennsylvania from 2004 until this year, when he was elected governor. […]
A new law that goes into effect in Missouri this week makes it against the law for teachers to interact with students on social networking sites such as Facebook: Teachers can be friendly with their students, but they can’t be their friends, at least when it comes to social networks such as Facebook. State Governor […]
Out of Kentucky comes one of the biggest problems of the secret campaign donors the Supreme Court has allowed: In the bitter U.S. Senate race in Kentucky, a local millionaire has helped launch a barrage of ads attacking the Democratic candidate a candidate who, as the state’s attorney general, is prosecuting the businessman’s nursing home […]
The Vatican, for the first time, has published what is being called a “handbook” on dealing with sexual abuse: “Civil law concerning reporting of crimes to the appropriate authorities should always be followed,” state the guidelines, compiled from existing Vatican rules. “Should”. That is an interesting word. So who decides if it should be reported […]
More trouble for Benedict: Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part […]