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Richard Scorer examines the legal principles behind the child abuse scandal in the Catholic Church

The powerful California Teachers Assn. is opposing two bills, drafted in the wake of the school sex abuse scandal in Los Angeles, that would make it easier to discipline teachers.

Molly Windsor picked up the BAFTA TV Award for Best Leading Actress for her role as 15 - year - old Holly Winshaw in Three Girls, based on the child sex abuse scandal in Rochdale.

Spotlight is about a group of of investigative reporters (Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery and Brian d'Arcy James) at the Boston Globe working to uncover the sexual abuse scandal in the Boston archdiocese back in 2002.

As the 61st BFI London Film Festival rolled out across the UK capital's cinemas, many of us found it hard to turn away from our Twitter feeds, where the biggest Hollywood sexual abuse scandal in living memory was exploding on a scale impossible to keep up with.

On the eve of the holiest week in the Catholic church, Bishop Richard J. Malone has issued a video about the priest abuse scandal in the Buffalo Diocese.

This year, though, the Child Victims Act is receiving heightened attention from the «Spotlight» movie — which is about the priest sexual - abuse scandal in Boston — and an unrelenting campaign for the legislation by the Daily News, which has featured Farrell's story.

In the wake of yet another sex abuse scandal in sports, here are some steps experts say parents can take to minimize the risk that their child, or a teammate will be a victim of sexual abuse or harassment.

Second, there is the sex abuse scandal in USA Swimming.

Premier League giant Chelsea has been dragged into the unfolding child abuse scandal in football in the UK.

Anderson says both the alleged abuse by a Penn State coach and the institution's apparent response mirrors the abuse scandal in the Catholic church.

Is it possible for a film to capture the horror of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church while at the same time presenting a case for the necessity of the institutional priesthood?

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The announcement Tuesday comes as the archdiocese faces one of the most sweeping sex abuse scandals in America.

PHILADELPHIA (CNN)- Jury selection begins Tuesday in the Philadelphia Catholic Archdiocese trial, a case experts have called one of the most sweeping sex abuse scandals in America.

He did credit the Legislature, which was rocked by a number of sexual harassment and abuse scandals in recent years, for taking steps to better address the probe.

From literally watching open heart surgery, to seeing children with bleeding eyes, to see cheating wives and husbands, to even relating to today's sexual abuse scandals in many more ways than one, this is a film that will probably scar some viewers in many more ways than one.

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Hart was on the investigative Senate committee that looked into CIA abuses in the 1970s, and became an outspoken critic of the excesses of the spy establishment — just as Richard Nixon was secretly battling the CIA, the Pentagon, and corporate interests at the time that the Watergate scandal began to undo his presidency.

However, given the potential for a so - called «Oscar bump,» the film about the Boston journalists who uncovered a Catholic Church sex abuse scandal could see an increase in ticket sales following Sunday night's win.

First announced amid a slew of updates Zuckerberg offered up in March as the scandal around abuse of user data by the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica was first coming to light, the new bounty program is modeled off of Facebook's attempts to combat hackers with a $ 1 million bug bounty.

While Wells Fargo received harsh criticism for its abuse of customer trust in the fake deposit account scandal of 2016, its highly - regarded mortgage business remained safe from blame until recently.

However, I find it interesting that other countries have recently been so worn down by financial advisor fraud, scandal, and abuse that they've finally decided to take real action — action that isn't even on the radar screen in America.

CHICAGO (Reuters)- Michigan State University's heightened financial risk in the wake of a sex abuse scandal involving former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar led Moody's Investors Service to cut the school's credit rating to Aa2 from Aa1 on Thursday.

Michigan State University's heightened financial risk in the wake of a sex abuse scandal involving former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar led Moody's Investors Service to cut the school's credit rating to Aa2 from Aa1 on Thursday.

But as the sex abuse scandal continues to embroil the Roman Catholic Church in more than a half - dozen countries across Europe - and with allegations being raised that the pope himself responded inadequately to abuse allegations before he began leading the church in 2005 - Benedict's anniversary celebration has been overshadowed by international scrutiny of his leadership.

And they are in a difficult spot, since many laymen, humiliated by the abuse scandal, have demanded strong episcopal action.

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Cardinal Angelo Sodano, former Vatican secretary of state and the dean of the College of Cardinals, did not specifically mention the sexual abuse scandal that has engulfed the Catholic Church in recent months.

Archbishop Robert Zollitsch said the abuse scandal that has come to light in Germany in recent weeks and months has shaken the church.

Most of the world hates their reptilian response to the priest abuse scandal, and the macchiavellian politics in the Vatican revealed what maneuvering swine they are.

The phones are ringing off the hook at the parish of St. Michael's Church, where the Rev. James Scahill called in a sermon last weekend for the pope to resign over the church's sexual abuse scandal.

The sexual abuse scandal that first flared in the United States when John Paul II was pope caught flame under Benedict, burning across the country and into Europe.

And in other news, the New York ultra-orthodox Jewish community has been enjoying their own version of a huge child - abuse scandal with over 85 cases of child abuse and also enjoying special treatment by the prosecutor's office in refusing to release the names of the convicted criminals in those cases!

While there were also a significant number of abuse cases involving parish priests in Ireland, another major scandal involved criminal abuse committed by members of religious orders working in Catholic - run institutions such as orphanages and reform schools.

For several years, we've seen major church groups caught in sex - abuse scandals.

In the United States, where the Church experienced a particular problem with clerical abuse scandals during the 90s and early 00s, their Bishops Conference commissioned a Report on the causes and nature of clerical abuse by the John Jay Institute, an independent legal research group, called the John Jay Report.

The complainant did not pursue the allegation again until 2012 after several high - profile cases of historical sexual abuse by church figures had broken in Australia and the US, as well as the Jimmy Savile scandal.

This scandal serves as a confirmation of something many Hollywood critics have long believed: that Tinsel Town is a sewer of moral degradation and corruption, in which the innocent are abused and then silenced and discarded.

• In an article on the anxieties of wealthy New York parents trying to get their small children into elite preschools, a New York Times reporter writes of standing outside one of the sought - after public schools, which happens to be one of four public schools recently the subject of a sex - abuse scandal.

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The «dirty dozen» turned out to be a blacklist of cardinals drawn up by an American victims group which claims they failed to take a stand in child abuse scandals.

John Coughlin's excellent review («Scandal and Canon Law,» June / July 2008) of Nicholas Cafardi's equally excellent book Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops» Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children is marred by approval of setting aside «prescription,» the statute of limitations for the prosecution of a delict in canon law.

The film also offers several painful depictions of the changes in the Church since the abuse scandal went public.

Last summer, attorneys in Colorado filed the first sex - abuse lawsuits against the archdiocese of Denver since the national clergy abuse scandal began four years ago.

Much of the damage that has been done to Catholicism in recent decades — by the abuse scandals, by the ongoing horror stories of mid-twentieth century Catholic life in Ireland, by forms of intellectual dissent that empty Catholicism of the patrimony of truth bequeathed to it by the Lord, by the counter-witness of Catholics in public life who fail to stand firm for the dignity of the human person at all stages of life and in all conditions of life — is a matter of self - imposed wounds, which Church authorities have an obligation to address.

Whatever moral capital U.S. bishops have in the wake of the sex abuse scandal that rocked the nation for decades will be insufficient to win over lay Catholics to what has been for at least a half a century a lost cause.

Despite a public culture committed to diversity and tolerance, anti-Catholicism has grown measurably worse among academics and intellectuals over the past decade — driven in equal parts by sexual abuse scandals, gay rights, resurgent atheism, and lingering historical prejudice.

I am an abuse victim advocate, and I interact with victims of abuse in the Church and deal with church abuse scandal coverups on a daily basis.

The number of new recruits to the priesthood has fallen sharply in the recent decades - and as Ireland has become engulfed in a series of child sex abuse scandals over the past few years.

(CNN)-- The results of the investigation into the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State University, released last week, suggest a crisis of conscience in the academy.