Mark Rozzi

Pennsylvania overhauled its child sexual abuse laws Tuesday, more than a year after a grand jury report showed the cover-up of hundreds of cases of abuse in most of Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses over the last seven decades.

The House voted 173-21 to send the Senate a bill creating a two-year window for litigation, but the idea has not been warmly embraced by the upper chamber.

Pope Francis denounced on Thursday the horrible findings of a years-long grand jury report into 70 years of sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials in six Pennsylvania dioceses.

Just days after the Grand Jury released a report on Pennsylvania clergy abuse, the Vatican has released a statement. The Pope used two words to express his reaction: “shame and sorrow.”

A man who has accused a since-defrocked priest of molesting him as a 13-year-old is asking Pennsylvania’s highest court to allow the release of a grand jury report into allegations of decades of child sexual abuse in six Roman Catholic dioceses.

An 800 page investigation into the Catholic Church is being kept top secret. Some believe it could demonstrate a lengthy cover up of sexual abuse in Pennsylvania. The grand jury report, which is the result of a two year investigation, alleges sex abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses. 

One after another, witnesses beat back fear of revealing details many had kept largely private and recounted to grand jurors their story of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests whom they had trusted.

A renewed push for legislation to abolish Pennsylvania’s statute of limitations in sex abuse cases will follow the publication of a sweeping grand jury report on allegations of child sexual abuse within six Roman Catholic dioceses around the state, a lawmaker says.

The results of a lengthy probe into the handling of sexual abuse claims by Roman Catholic dioceses throughout Pennsylvania, which victim advocates say will be the biggest and most exhaustive ever by a U.S. state, could be made public within weeks.

An NBC10 Exclusive as we await the release of a new Grand Jury report on child sex abuse within Catholic churches throughout Pennsylvania. A state lawmaker who says he was abused by a priest in the Reading area is speaking out about his story and his fight for victims. 

A state lawmaker who says he was abused by a suburban Philadelphia priest more than three decades ago now says state prosecutors are investigating priest abuse accusations in that diocese and another in Pennsylvania’s capital.

A Pennsylvania grand jury is investigating allegations of priest sex abuse in the Allentown and Harrisburg dioceses. Both dioceses are reportedly cooperating with authorities.

Pennsylvania lawmakers voted Tuesday to give victims of child sexual abuse more time to sue and more time for prosecutors to bring charges against perpetrators.

Pennsylvania lawmakers are advancing legislation that would give victims of sexual abuse as children more time to sue as adults and prosecutors more time to make an arrest.