roman catholic sex abuse scandal
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- The Catonsville-based religious group, Little Sisters of the Poor, is among the employers who are fighting the Affordable Care Act's provision requiring employee health insurance plans to cover contraceptives. This, after Pope Francis himself signaled a desire to step back from the culture wars.
- Anne Arundel County police are investigating sexual abuse allegations by a former student at Monsignor Slade Catholic School in Glen Burnie, officials of the Archdiocese of Baltimore said Wednesday.
- The Sesame Street puppeteer rejects all allegations but quit his 28-year job with the children's show last month as lawsuits mounted
- A state lawmaker is once again trying to add criminal sanctions to the law
- Proposed reforms come in wake of a Baltimore Sun investigation that revealed several Catholic officials having knowledge of a teacher's repeated sex crimes on students – years before he was prosecuted and ultimately convicted.
- Several incidents outlined in court documents, analyzed in a Baltimore Sun investigation, indicate that Catholic officials were aware of John Merzbacher's sexual abuse of students in the 1970s but did not report it until he was criminally investigated in the 1990s.
- Baltimore prosecutors plan to look into new sexual abuse allegations from the 1970s against former Catholic school teacher John Merzbacher, according to his most recent accuser.
- Child sex abuse: Penn State scandal exposes a shameful epidemic that too often goes ignored
- A Jesuit priest has been removed from ministry in Washington for inappropriately touching a child when he was a teacher and vice principal in Baltimore's St. Frances-Charles Hall.
- Archbishop 's attempt to blame sexual abuse on society's sexual climate is flawed.
- Child abuse not a product of culture but church policy
- Archbishop Edwin O'Brien of Baltimore discusses the recent report on the causes of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and outlines the steps it is taking to make sure it doesn't recur.
