A ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court said that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law and as a result someone who destroys them could be held liable for wrongful death.
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Alabama Court Rules Frozen Embryos Can Be Lawfully Considered ‘Unborn Children’
A ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court said that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law and as a result someone who destroys them could be held liable for wrongful death.
Pope Francis Adds Prominent Clergy Sex Abuse Survivor to Pontifical Commission
On Wednesday, March 24, Pope Francis appointed a prominent clergy abuse survivor and advocate to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. Chilean Juan Carlos Cruz joins 15 previous commission members whose terms were all renewed for one year.
Vatican Releases Guide on How Leaders Must Handle Abuse Allegations
The Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a 17-page document offering a step-by-step guide for how bishops, religious superiors and canon lawyers are supposed to handle accusations of alleged abuse by clerics against minors.
Pope’s Point Man on Abuse to U.S. Church: Be Prepared for New Revelations
One of Pope Francis’s closest allies in fighting clergy abuse praised the American church for going “a step further” than the Vatican’s new global guidelines for bishop accountability by requiring a third-party reporting system, which is set to take effect next year.
U.S. Cardinal William Levada, Former Doctrinal Head, Dies in Rome
VATICAN CITY (Catholic News Service) — U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, former head of the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation and retired archbishop of San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, died Sept. 26 in Rome. He was 83. When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in 2005, he named then-Archbishop Levada to replace him as […]