"It's justice denied for more than 60 years for some people," Claude Leboeuf said. "These are people who brought their complaints to the diocese as kids in the 1960s, and they were ignored, ridiculed, even punished."
Catholic priests in Rhode Island preyed on hundreds of children for decades, getting away with sexual abuse largely due to a system where bishops prioritized minimizing scandal as the diocese maintained a secret archive to conceal the revelation of more victims.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee announced Jan. 14 that he'll sign into law a measure that would assure continued taxpayer funding of faith-based foster care and adoption agencies even if they exclude LGBT families and others based on religious beliefs.
