The Archdiocese of San Francisco will “very likely” file for bankruptcy in order to deal with a wave of lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse by its priests and other employees and volunteers going back decades, the archbishop said.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse on Thursday announced a $100 million settlement with people who say they were sexual abuse victims as part of its bankruptcy proceedings.

On behalf of the companies, organizations and associations that hired them, lobbyists registered with Maryland’s State Ethics Commission tried to influence nearly every one of the almost 2,300 pieces legislation introduced by General Assembly members this year.

Two more insurance companies have agreed to sign on to a deal that will bring sexual abuse victims’ potential payout in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester’s long-running Chapter 11 bankruptcy to more than $126 million.

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown is asking the state spending board for approval to create four positions to beef up his office’s investigations into sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.

This week, a Circuit Court awarded the plaintiff known only as "N.D." a total of $40 million dollars in damages in connection with N.D's claims that the Defendant, Keneth L. Apana, raped and sexually abused her in 1992 when she was just 12.

Federal investigators told a crime victims’ advocate’s office that they are working on exhuming the body of Joyce Malecki, a sudden development in the decades-old cold case detailed in the Netflix series “The Keepers.”

Legal arguments are set to begin Wednesday behind closed doors on whether redactions will be lifted from the state’s 456-page report on the history of child sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore added more than 40 names to its public list of Catholic Church staff credibly accused of sexually abusing children, including for the first time deacons, nuns and lay teachers. The additions, approved at the direction of Archbishop William Lori, mark the largest single expansion of the archdiocese’s credibly accused list since it first published 57 names in 2002 as part of its response to the national clergy abuse scandal.

A Roman Catholic priest removed from a Santa Fe parish nearly a year ago amid a misconduct investigation was arrested Thursday on federal charges accusing him of enticement of a minor with the intent to engage in sexual activity.

His uncle was a Catholic priest. His father ran a law firm whose most prominent clients were the Archdiocese of Baltimore and Cardinal Lawrence Shehan. And when he was 14 years old, a seminarian at St. Mary’s Seminary molested him, according to his family.

A former head wrestling coach of Mount Saint Joseph High School who was the only person indicted in the Maryland attorney general’s investigation into child sexual abuse and cover-ups within the Archdiocese of Baltimore is set to stand trial this week on charges that he groomed and assaulted a teen.

A public version of the Maryland attorney general’s report on child sexual abuse within the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore redacts the names of 10 alleged abusers and gives the reasons why in the footnotes: These people are presumed to be alive and previously haven’t been listed as publicly accused.

The Nevada lawsuit came only a few weeks after Gov. Joe Lombardo signed a bill that eliminated a two-year deadline for adults to file sexual abuse cases. Similar suits have followed other "lookback laws" in other states.

A former nun from Philadelphia who died 31 years ago is the last alleged abuser to be identified among the names concealed in the Maryland attorney general’s report on child sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore, according to census records, obituaries and documents from her religious order.

Gov. Wes Moore signed dozens of bills into law Tuesday afternoon, hours after the 2023 legislative session ended. One of those new Maryland laws will open the door to new lawsuits brought by survivors of child sex abuse.

Sometime in the next week or so, the Maryland Attorney General’s Office is expected to release its report on the sexual abuse of children and young adults by priests and brothers in the Archdiocese of Baltimore dating back 80 years.

The Maryland House of Delegate seemed to collectively hold its breath on Friday, as a years-long, painful journey to help survivors of child sexual abuse culminated in a vote.

Following an emotional committee vote the night before, the Maryland House of Delegates gave preliminary approval Thursday to a hard-fought bill to remove the statute of limitations to file lawsuits against child sex abusers.

A group of area law firms have formed a coalition to represent childhood sexual abuse survivors ahead of the impending release of the Maryland attorney general’s report on clergy abuse in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.