A new document from the Vatican outlines Pope Francis’s rejection of gender-affirming surgery, surrogacy and abortion. The ...
Pope Francis on Thursday defrocked a notorious Belgian bishop who admitted 14 years ago that he sexually abused his nephew but faced no Vatican punishment. The case of Roger Vangheluwe, the ...
The WSW report found at least 497 cases of abuse at the Archdiocese of Munich between the years 1945 and 2019, and mostly involved young males A distraught Pope Francis again pledged justice for ...
The Pope said he was sorry for the "irreparable damage" caused by abuse committed by clergy Pope Francis has met a group of victims of sexual abuse by priests in Chile. The meeting at the Vatican ...
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sits in St. Peter's Basilica as he attends the ceremony marking the start of the Holy Year, at the Vatican, Dec. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) BERLIN (AP) — A ...
WARSAW (Reuters) - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop for negligence in handling cases of sexual ...
A Belgian former bishop who admitted sexually abusing two of his nephews has been removed from the priesthood by Pope Frances, more than a decade after the case first came to light. The Vatican ...
Pope Francis has laicized an Ohio priest after the clergyman received a life sentence in prison for the sexual abuse of minors, the Diocese of Toledo said this week. Michael Zacharias, 57, was ...
A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany’s Munich diocese on Thursday faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of four cases when he was archbishop in the 1970s and 1980s.
One afternoon in mid-December, Pope Francis had a meeting that wasn't on his official agenda or otherwise recorded, that underscored the utter dysfunction of the Catholic Church's response to the ...