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25 Nov 2008, 3:55 pm
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] on Monday affirmed [opinion, PDF] a lower court decision denying in part defendant's motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging that officials of the Roman Catholic Church failed to warn the public of sexual abuse of children by priests. [read post]
30 Nov 2016, 8:42 am
In Mexico on Tuesday, prosecutors-- in a first of its kind case-- filed charges of "vote pressuring" against a Roman Catholic priest. [read post]
7 Feb 2005, 8:46 am
[JURIST] AP is reporting that after a week-long trial [JURIST report] a jury in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has found defrocked [JURIST report] Roman Catholic priest Paul Shanley [Boston Globe profile] guilty of repeatedly molesting a boy at his church during the 1980s. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 5:41 am
(AP) — A Roman Catholic priest who served as the face of the church in New Hampshire during the sex abuse scandal was granted parole Tuesday on two of his convictions for ... [read post]
20 May 2021, 11:00 pm
Wisconsin statutes provide limited liability for: (1) volunteers of non-profit corporations, (2) directors, officers, and volunteers of the Roman Catholic church and other religious organizations, (3) volunteer health care providers, (4) volunteer firefighters, and (5) persons engaged in donations or non-profit sales of food, emergency household products, emergency medical supplies, and waste materials. [read post]
13 Jul 2018, 4:05 am
According to Radio Praha yesterday:The head of the Czech Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Dominik Duka, has filed a lawsuit over a pair of theatre plays staged in Brno in May.... [read post]
27 Dec 2013, 12:28 pm
Monsignor William Lynn, the first senior US Roman Catholic Church official to be found guilty for covering up child sex abuse by a priest, was originally sentenced to three-to-six years in prison in 2012. [read post]
10 Feb 2016, 12:28 pm
"Court stands by decision overturning cleric's conviction": Jeremy Roebuck of The Philadelphia Inquirer has a news update that begins, "A state appellate court on Wednesday refused to reconsider its decision last year to overturn what had been the first conviction nationwide of a Roman Catholic Church official for covering up child sex abuse by priests. [read post]
20 Sep 2005, 3:22 am
[JURIST] Carla del Ponte, the United Nations' chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia [official website; JURIST news archive], said Monday that the Roman Catholic Church [official website] and Vatican officials are concealing the location of the third most wanted war criminal from the Yugoslav conflict, General Ante Gotovina [ICTY case backgrounder; [read post]
13 Mar 2013, 1:39 pm
The Roman Catholic Church has a new pope and it is not Mr. [read post]
21 Aug 2012, 12:09 pm
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Oregon [official website] ruled in favor of the Vatican on Monday by holding that priests are not employees of the Holy See [official website], the ecclesiastical, governmental and administrative capital of the Roman Catholic Church. [read post]
10 Apr 2013, 1:17 pm
from IVF pioneer Robert Edwards dead at 87 When Edwards was awarded a Nobel prize in 2010 for his work on IVF, the Roman Catholic Church denounced the Nobel award, arguing that human life should only begin through intercourse and not artificially. [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 8:05 am
Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa, (10th Cir., July 13, 2010), the 10th Circuit applied the "ministerial exception" to dismiss gender and age discrimination claims brought by the director of the Department of Religious Formation of the Tulsa Diocese. [read post]
26 Oct 2006, 5:13 pm
Nicaragua [US State Dept. backgrounder] has a large Roman Catholic population and the church assisted in drafting [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 8:50 am
The House voted 40-13 in favor of the bill [El Pais report, in Spanish], which has been opposed by both the Roman Catholic Church and opposition political leaders with only a single vote on the bill from the opposition [read post]
19 Nov 2006, 10:55 am
A PRO-LIFE THEOCRAT takes over in Nicaragua: "Abortion was a central issue for November's presidential election in mainly Roman Catholic Nicaragua. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 12:13 pm
[JURIST] The Cuban Roman Catholic Church [official website] announced Friday that Cuban officials have agreed to release two more political prisoners. [read post]
27 Feb 2009, 7:56 am
Supposedly, after he was ordered by the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church to recant his theory of the heliocentric universe, Galileo left the room muttering under his breath, "Eppur si muove" - Italian for "Nevertheless, it does move. [read post]
6 Apr 2010, 8:54 am
What will the Roman Catholic Church say to the "little ones" about whom Jesus is reported to have told his disciples "If any of you scandalize one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened... [read post]
2 Feb 2017, 7:29 am
” Baltadjian v The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation for the Diocese of Alexandria, 2017 ONSC 61 (CanLII) [read post]
