Catholic Dioceses Grand Jury Report

Clergy in 33 states are exempt from laws requiring professionals such as teachers, physicians and psychotherapists to report information about alleged child abuse to police or child welfare officials. That loophole has resulted in an unknown number of predators being allowed to continue abusing children for years despite having confessed the behavior to religious officials.

An internal investigation into an apparent bureaucratic blunder by Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration that scuttled a statewide voter referendum sought by victims of childhood sexual abuse found no evidence of a deliberate attempt to derail it.

On today’s program: State Rep. Mark Rozzi explains what it would mean for his bill, giving survivors of childhood sexual abuse two years to sue perpetrators, to pass; and a Lancaster County health administrator explains how they’re making inroads to vaccinate the Amish and Plain communities.

The Pennsylvania House approved a bill Wednesday to establish a two-year window for civil claims over childhood sexual abuse, part of a…

The state House of Representatives showed solid support Tuesday for enacting a two-year lawsuit window for child victims of sexual abuse as a regular…

Majority Republicans in the state Senate announced Monday they will not employ a rarely used emergency process to amend the Pennsylvania Constitution to…

On this week's Explainer:As many as 100,000 Pennsylvanians could see their COVID-19 vaccine appointments rescheduled due to an error in communication, the…

The news that Pennsylvania had screwed up the process for putting a constitutional amendment before voters that would allow victims of decades-old sexual…

On today's program: A Chatham University professor is researching a type of mental health screening that could prevent people at risk of potential sexual…

The Wolf administration had no system in place to prevent an apparent administrative mistake like the one that derailed a statewide vote on legal recourse…