Survivors push lawmakers for clergy abuse reform

Survivors push lawmakers for clergy abuse reform

Rhode Island's House Judiciary Committee heard testimony Thursday night on several bills to the clergy sex abuse scandal.

After bombshell report on clergy sex abuse, RI Catholic Church goes on the defense

On Thursday night, Rhode Island’s Catholic Diocese of Providence will once again face off against the victims of clergy sexual abuse fighting for the legal right to sue the church for what was done to them as children. The question: Will the Diocese of Providence prevail again this year, in the state Senate, in the wake of Attorney General Peter Neronha’s scathing report on the “culture” of secrecy and concealment within the church that hid decad