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I am writing in response to “Victims of their own monster; Ballyhooed system for monitoring priests fails” (Commentary, Feb. 16), by Eugene Cullen Kennedy, a former priest and professor… ...
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- The Catholic Church hierarchy in Los Angeles strategized how to keep child molestation by priests a secret, documents released Monday show.
A crucifix is seen in Notre-Dame Basilica in Nice, France, Oct. 4, 2021. The next day, a report on clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in France was released, showing there had been 3,000 ...
French Catholic clergy could have abused at least 10,000 minors and other vulnerable people since 1950, according to an independent investigation set up by the Church in France.
WASHINGTON — Many years ago, in the early 1980s, I was drawn ever so transiently into the bureaucratic intricacies of the Roman Catholic Church in America. There was a saintly priest at India… ...
Pope Francis is changing America's Catholic hierarchy The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is meeting in Balitmore this week to pick a new leader for the next three years.
“There is a strong sense that the church is like a ship without a rudder,” Cardinal Raymond Burke, who became Pope Francis’ most vocal critic in the American hierarchy, warned early on in ...