Some states are attempting to lift civil and criminal statutes of limitations retroactively for child sex abuse. Such measures would allow government to investigate decades-old cases and hold today’s 67 million Catholics responsible for damages. In light of this, the American TFP is vigorously protesting such legislative bills nationwide claiming the measures unfairly penalize Catholics in the pew and favor the agenda of dissident activists groups inside the Church.   

State legislatures across the nation are now being pressured to lift or extend retroactively their civil statutes of limitations related to sexual abuse. The American TFP calls on the Catholic faithful to fight these extraordinary efforts with utmost vigor.

In the late eighties, you began to see efforts by victims' groups, recovered memory therapists and lawyers representing these alleged victims trying to get the legislatures around the country to lift the statute of limitations so that people could file lawsuits no matter how long ago these things had happened.

In the article, “Not All the News is Fit to Print,” in the August 15 issue of Commonweal, Prof. Patrick Schiltz grills the media and formulates a series of challenges that make a lot of sense. He suggests that maybe the whole story is not being told. Click here to take the Schiltz Challenge.

They call it the next litigation gold rush on the horizon and it will be big business. A wave of child abuse litigation is but another facet of the great crisis confronting the Church in America.

The growing cry for revealing confession testimony is taking the form of legislation heralded as a way to "protect the children." In fact, Catholic activists and victims' advocate groups are pressuring state legislatures to enact laws that will force priests to break the Seal of Confession in abuse cases.

May 7, 2003 - There are two ways visitors can experience Louisiana. You can take the beaten path, the way full of the ready-made experiences of the tourist who lives to tell his tale to others. This is Louisiana of the Mardi Gras celebrations, plantation houses, carefree summer festivals and historic museums. However, there is a path less traveled and that is a journey through Catholic Louisiana which reveals a more authentic side of the state.

Report on a speaking tour promoting the book, I Have Weathered Other Storms.