Tag: clergy sex abuse

The Archdiocese of New Orleans and Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond are pushing back against a newspaper's investigative report claiming they mishandled several claims of...

Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is not competent to stand trial in Massachusetts on charges that he sexually abused a teenage boy nearly 50...

VATICAN CITY -- Emphasizing the responsibility of all Catholics to ensure the church is a safe place, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of...

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul released a May 23 report revealing decades of abuse by Catholic clergy against almost 2,000 children. The report, unveiled during...

One of the leading figures in the Catholic Church's effort to protect children from sexual abuse, Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston, is named...

PHILADELPHIA -- The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is facing a civil lawsuit over claims it covered up for one of its former priests who allegedly...

The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, one of the most famous sites of Marian apparitions worldwide, is facing an important decision: what to...

OSNABRUECK, Germany -- The vice president of the German bishops' conference, Bishop Franz-Josef Bode, has become the first Catholic bishop in Germany to resign...

By Jeff Jacoby Boston Globe Here is a proposition no reasonable person could argue with: There must be laws protecting minors from abuse and neglect and...

FORT WORTH, Texas -- After being out of ministry for nearly four years, a Jesuit priest devoted to teaching and high school administration was...