On the morning of May 2, 2025, supporters of Washington Senate Bill 5375 were ushered through the massive concrete arches and up the grand staircases of the Washington state Capitol — the veins of ...

On Palm Sunday in 2002 as I prepared to begin Mass, I took a brown paper bag with the eyes, nose and mouth cut out and placed it over my head. As I processed up the aisle, I could hear giggles and saw ...

The Catholic Church attempted to reopen a highly controversial legal loophole that stopped it being sued by victims of sexual abuse for millions of dollars in damages, an ABC investigation can reveal.

For some survivors, he was a hero. Others who reported abuse said he failed them. Prayers in May at the cathedral in Chiclayo, Peru, where Robert Prevost served as bishop from 2015 until he was ...

A Catholic priest has been arrested for allegedly forcibly touching a woman inside a church kitchen in a Long Island diocese already reeling from so many sex-abuse cases that it’s bankrupt. The Rev.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno announced Tuesday it voluntarily filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it deals with 153 claims of clergy sexual abuse. Fresno church officials said the ...

A documentary on Father Marko Rupnik’s alleged abuse of consecrated women, the personal fallout for two of his alleged victims, and what happened when the claims became public decades later premiered ...

Catholic bishops and priests in Washington are challenging a new state law that requires clergy to break the seal of confession to report possible child sex abuse. The bill, signed by Democratic Gov.

On Palm Sunday in 2002 as I prepared to begin Mass, I took a brown paper bag with the eyes, nose and mouth cut out and placed it over my head. As I processed up the aisle, I could hear giggles and saw ...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (KGO) -- The Bishop of the Diocese of Santa Rosa answered questions about the list released of 39 former priests and deacons who are credibly accused of sexual abuse. RELATED: Get ...

Mass. priest calls for Pope to resign over child sex abuse accusations. April 12, 2010— -- A defiant Massachusetts priest today accused Pope Benedict XVI of lying about his role in what the ...