Roman Catholic Church

NEW YORK—Scores of people in New York state who were sexually abused as children sued institutions, including the Roman Catholic Church, on Aug. 14, the first day a new law ...

MELBOURNE, Australia—Prosecutors argued in an Australian court on Thursday that child sex convictions against Roman Catholic Cardinal George ...

West Virginia's Attorney General filed a lawsuit on March 19 alleging that a Roman Catholic diocese and its ...

Cardinal George Pell, Australia's highest-ranking Catholic, has been convicted of five child sex offences committed in 1996. Australia’s ...

Pope Francis pledged to end the dark history of church coverups in his closing speech at the Vatican's ...

The Vatican dismissed former U.S. Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick from the Roman Catholic priesthood on Feb. 16 after he was ...

Church officials in Texas released the names of nearly 300 priests credibly accused of child sexual abuse in ...

In the midst of a resurgence in investigations of Roman Catholic Church abuse, the Northeast Province of the Society ...

More than half of the 187 Roman Catholic dioceses across the United States have started investigating clergy child ...

The Justice Department (DOJ) has launched an investigation into at least six Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania over child ...

At least 13 states have announced they are investigating the clergy sexual-abuse allegations linked to the Roman Catholic ...

Four men who were sexually abused as children by a former religious teacher at a Roman Catholic church ...

The hotline established for reporting sexual abuse by Catholic priests in New Jersey is constantly busy. “It rang ...

Pope Francis will meet this week with a delegation of top U.S. cardinals and bishops over the sex-abuse ...

Calls by U.S. Catholics demanding swift and concrete action on allegations of clergy sexual abuse across the United ...

At least seven states across the country have started investigating sexual-abuse claims by clergy or have laid the ...

A Roman Catholic priest from Pennsylvania has been accused of inappropriately touching a 17-year-old girl and sending her nude ...

The Vatican on Aug. 16 broke its silence and responded for the first time on the Pennsylvania grand ...

As observers and Catholics around the world have been stunned by how the Vatican, in exchange for diplomatic ...

A Vatican judge on Saturday indicted five people, including two journalists and a high-ranking Vatican monsignor, in the ...

Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Fan Zhongliang dies in Shanghai under house arrest

Crucifixion re-enactment: On Good Friday, thousands gathered in a town in the Philippines to watch the re-enactment of ...