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After five years of stalled negotiations, survivors and attorneys clash over a proposed $240 million clergy abuse settlement in New Orleans. Will it pass?
Former youth pastor Timothy Jeltema of Champion Forest Baptist Church admitted to abusing about 25 girls. But according to a now-settled lawsuit, a church leader once tipped him off about a police investigation, giving him time to destroy evidence.
Vermont’s Catholic Diocese is facing 118 new clergy abuse claims as part of a growing bankruptcy case. Survivors hope a court presentation will give voice to decades of silence.
A powerful new investigation reveals how decades of warnings about Pentecostal preacher Joe Campbell went unheeded—allowing him to continue preaching and working with children despite abuse allegations.
The LDS Church has reached a tentative settlement in over 100 sexual abuse lawsuits filed in California. Here’s what that means for survivors.
After years of secret court battles, the Camden Diocese says it will no longer oppose a grand jury probe into clergy sexual abuse. But questions remain about whether the investigation will proceed.
Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American pontiff brings renewed attention to his past handling of clerical abuse cases and his vision for Church reform.
Washington’s new law requiring clergy to report child abuse—even if disclosed in confession—sets up a constitutional showdown, with the Catholic Church threatening excommunication for priests who comply.
As the Vatican prepares to elect a new pope, criticism grows over the presence of a sanctioned cardinal at conclave events—while the Church’s own abuse commission urges leaders to put survivors first.
A bankruptcy judge’s ruling is giving Maryland survivors of clergy abuse a brief window to file lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Baltimore before new state-imposed damages caps take effect.