Facing a federal class action lawsuit involving more than 463 former USC students, the University of Southern California has entered a tentative agreement that would pay $215 million to resolve claims against former gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall. Tyndall was the sole gynecologist on the USC…
News outlets across the country are reporting news from the Vatican that Pope Francis has accepted 77-year-old Cardinal Donald Wuerl’s resignation as Archbishop of Washington, D.C. However, Wuerl submitted his resignation in 2015 when he turned 75 as required by canon law. Here’s where the…
Florida has joined 12 other states investigating the criminal behavior of the Catholic Church in the sexual abuse of children. Last Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the probe of the seven dioceses in Florida. She stated that she would coordinate with locate prosecutors in…
Bill Cosby, 81 years old, will spend the next 3 to 10 years behind bars after being found guilty of three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault in April in one of the most widely publicized trials in modern history. The sentence could have been…
A few weeks after New York Attorney General launched a statewide investigation into how the Catholic dioceses of the state, including the Archdiocese of New York, have handled priest sex abuse cases, Cardinal Dolan of New York has appointed a former judge to review his…
In what the media is describing as the largest Catholic Church sex abuse settlement for an individual, the Diocese of Brooklyn has come to terms with four boys who were sexually abused by a lay teacher for $27.5 million. Angelo Serrano, who worked at St.…
Former papal nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò has penned a public declaration that calls for the Pope’s resignation in the wake of the Cardinal McCarrick scandal. It is the first known instance such a high ranking official has called for the…
“Priests were raping little boys and girls, and the men of God who were responsible for them not only did nothing; they hid it all. For decades.” Take a moment and think about that sentence. It comes from a sweeping grand jury report, which revealed…
A few weeks after the revelations about Cardinal McCarrick, the Catholic Church in the United States is hit with another bombshell-the grand jury report in Pennsylvania. Twenty-three jurors have been listening to testimony for two years in Pittsburgh about the sexual abuse of minors in…
A San Francisco jury has ruled in favor of a California man who says the cancer he contracted was caused by the popular weed killer Roundup. In the first of thousands of Roundup lawsuits, the jury awarded $289 million-$39 million in compensatory and $250 million…
Embattled University of Southern California President C. L. Max Nikias has resigned amid a sex abuse scandal involving former campus gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall. His resignation came after repeated calls from students and faculty claiming Nikias had failed to protect students from Tyndall’s sexu
New York University Langone Orthopedic Hospital has halted the use of the Stryker Tritanium hip implants. This action was based upon findings in a new study published in June 2018 by doctors and scientists at the hospital. The study documented several performance failures of the…
