'Sexual Abuse Of Children Happened In The Catholic Church': Priest's Attorney
PHILADELPHIA -- Prosecutors aired dozens of confidential church documents in court Tuesday to try to prove the Philadelphia archdiocese routinely buri...
PHILADELPHIA -- Prosecutors aired dozens of confidential church documents in court Tuesday to try to prove the Philadelphia archdiocese routinely buri...
AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 05.26.2012
PHILADELPHIA -- A high-ranking monsignor who's on trial "won't run" from the Catholic Church's sex abuse crisis, his lawyer said Monday as the landmar...
AP | By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 02.07.2012
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Retired New York Cardinal Edward Egan is facing criticism from representatives of clergy sexual abuse victims for a recent intervi...
Posted 01.24.2012
Rev. Charles Robert Manning, a pastor at St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church in Colorado Springs, has been placed on leave following allegations...
Christopher Brauchli | Posted 01.22.2012
Although there are many similarities between the church and Penn State there is one significant difference. The era of sexual abuse of children at Penn State has almost certainly come to an end. Can that be said for the Church?
Trish Kinney | Posted 01.21.2012
The moment I realized that the Penn State scandal was breaking, and breaking big, I knew that the universe had taken over. My prayers had been answer...
The Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.15.2011
The Archdiocese of Chicago has reached a $3.2 million settlement with the family of another sex abuse victim of former priest Daniel McCormack. The...
The Huffington Post | Ileana Llorens | Posted 11.21.2011
A Catholic Church pedophile abuse investigator is serving time in jail after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography on a laptop and camera...
Patricia McGuire | Posted 01.08.2012
The failure to act immediately to expose and arrest predators is a moral failure that leads only to further destruction of both the victims and the institutions that collude through their silence.
Michael Ruse | Posted 12.19.2011
Too often, established religion does make possible evil things and clearly the Kansas City situation is one such case. The authority and attitude of the bishop makes what happened all too possible and common.
AP | BILL DRAPER | Posted 12.14.2011
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City's Catholic bishop has become the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic official indicted on a charge of failing to protec...
AP | By VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 09.24.2011
VATICAN CITY -- Chafing under extraordinary criticism, the Vatican made the rare move of recalling its ambassador to Ireland on Monday following accus...
Posted 06.11.2011
By Daniel Burke Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) U.S. Catholic bishops announced Monday (April 11) that sexual abuse accusations against Cathol...
AP | FRANCES D'EMILIO | Posted 05.25.2011
VATICAN CITY — Newly released U.S. diplomatic cables indicate that the Vatican felt "offended" that Ireland failed to respect Holy See "sovereig...
AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican on Thursday released documentation showing Pope Benedict XVI sought as early as 1988 to find quicker ways to permanently ...
Posted 05.25.2011
By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican on Wednesday (Jan. 19) tried to tamp down allegations a controversial 1997 lett...
BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011
A Catholic priest in Spain has been arrested over the alleged possession of thousands of images of child sex abuse. Police said they found 21,000 i...
AP | VICTOR L. SIMPSON | Posted 05.25.2011
ROME — Washington's relationship with the Holy See is too strong to be undermined by WikiLeaks revelations, the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican s...
AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 05.25.2011
DUBLIN — The Vatican tried to stop Dublin church leaders from defrocking a particularly dangerous pedophile priest and relented only after he ra...
Posted 05.25.2011
Italian police blocked victims of Catholic priest sexual abuse from protesting near the Vatican on Sunday, the AP is reporting. The demonstration was ...
AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN DIEGO — Attorneys for nearly 150 people who claim sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests made nearly 10,000 pages of previously sealed inter...
Posted 05.25.2011
A new study conducted by three local advocacy groups paints a devastating picture of abuse by priests and other clergy within Chicago--showing that mo...
AP | DINESH RAMDE | Posted 05.25.2011
MILWAUKEE — A federal U.S. judge is asking the Vatican to cooperate in serving the pope and two other top officials with court papers that stem ...
AP | RAF CASERT | Posted 05.25.2011
BRUSSELS — Hundreds of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly ...
AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 05.25.2011
DUBLIN — Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has told priests that the Vatican has rejected the resignations of his two auxiliary bishops followin...
AP | MARYCLAIRE DALE | Posted 05.27.2012