By Daniel Payne The Diocese of Oakland, California, has announced that it will pay up to $200 million to settle hundreds of abuse claims...

Ramon Antonio Vargas and David Hammer of WWL Louisiana in New Orleans In a gesture of reconciliation to victims of its decades-old...

By Gina Christia (OSV News) — The Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ $880 million abuse claims settlement, announced Oct. 16, brings the total...

Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez The Washington Attorney General's office says Catholic Church records related to child sex abuse do not qualify...

Church leaders who fail to take action against paedophile priests are a “further source of evil” for victims of sexual abuse and should...

David G Bonagura, Jr. After years of bankruptcy litigation, my diocese has just agreed to a record $330 million payout to victims of...

...the number of people alleging abuse by Catholic priests stands at nearly 2,500;... true number could be much higher Christina House

The settlement is the highest single payout by an archdiocese, experts said, and brings Los Angeles’s cumulative payout in sex abuse lawsuit

By Phil Lawler In more than 40 years of covering news of the Catholic Church, I have never encountered a Vatican story as wild as  this...

A third of Catholics who previously went to Mass have reduced their attendance or stopped going altogether as a result of the child...

By Hannah Brockhaus At the first meeting of the full assembly of the Synod on Synodality on Wednesday, Pope Francis said a bishop’s...

Daniel Payne/CNA New York Archbishop Cardinal Timothy Dolan this week said the archdiocese’s longtime insurer is “attempting to evade...

Carol Glatz Calling on the world’s bishops not to cover up any instance or form of abuse, Pope Francis said the evil of abuse must be...

by Christopher White Brussels — September 27, 2024 Pope Francis on Sept. 27 kicked off a  three-day trip to Belgium by asking...

By Matthieu Lasserre “The faithful across the dioceses of Ireland named the toll of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, along with its...

Ramon Antonio Vargas A grand jury in Texas has handed up more felony sexual assault charges against a Roman Catholic priest accused of...

ByAssociated Pressand Claudia Rebaza , CNN VATICAN CITY Associated Press —  Pope Francis took the unusual decision Wednesday to expel 10...

“The faithful across the dioceses of Ireland named the toll of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, along with its concealment as the...

New indictment leaves Anthony Odiong facing seven sexual assault charges – all in connection with three women

By Douglas Martin Abbé Pierre, who in the 1950s as a gaunt priest with a crook-handled cane and a profoundly persuasive passion mobilized...