After Years of Sexual Abuse Allegations, How Did This Doctor Keep Working?

NEW YORK TIMES

Hospital staff members looked the other way while Ricardo Cruciani addicted vulnerable women to pain medications and assaulted them, according to a new lawsuit. read more »

How has the Catholic church reckoned with sexual-abuse claims?

THE ECONOMIST

As many as 330,000 children were sexually abused by clergy and lay members of the Catholic church in France between 1950 and 2020. A two-year independent investigation, published in recent days, revealed the extent of the scandal. But France is not alone in facing up to the church’s history of abuse. Accusations against Catholic priests around the world have surged since the 1990s. Thousands of cases have emerged across dozens of countries, including America, Australia, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Philippines and Poland. read more »