The Los Angeles Times reported that its analysis of Boy Scouts of America’s “perversion” files showed that the Boy Scouts of America fought the trend of adopting criminal background checks for volunteers and staff, unknowingly allowing convicted child sex offenders to join.  Amid reports of widespread sexual abuse of children in the late 1980s, several [...]

“Of all the organizations that serve America’s poor, few do more good work than the Catholic church: its schools and hospitals provide a lifeline for millions. Yet even taking these virtues into account, the finances of the Catholic church in America are an unholy mess. The sins involved in its book-keeping are not as vivid [...]