Bishop Edward Scharfenberger is scheduled to announce new leadership at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany on Monday, ...

Bolivia has elected Rodrigo Paz as president, picking a centrist politician with a history of amicable church ties.

Bishop-designate Mark O’Connell says his experience navigating one of the Catholic Church’s darkest chapters has prepared him ...

The Roman Catholic Church has paid out $7.3 million to more than 70 people sexually abused during their youth by priests in Colorado parishes, settling claims dating back over two decades, authorities ...

VATICAN CITY, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday named 20 new cardinals to the elite group at the top of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, including 15 who are under 80 and will be allowed to enter ...

A Vatican commission for the protection of children has said the mishandling by the Catholic Church’s leaders of sexual abuse ...

The Vatican’s child protection board said Thursday the Catholic Church has a moral obligation to help victims of clergy sexual abuse heal. Financial reparations for the abused and tougher sanctions ...

Regarding "New abuse charges test the faithful": The second paragraph said: "Church officials have been forced to acknowledge they moved known abusive priests from parish to parish, enabling them to ...

Imagine that you are an organization that is obsessed with sex, and you have been for a long time, often in unhealthy ways. Now imagine that you are suddenly in a sex scandal on a global scale that ...

LONDON (RNS) — King Henry VIII and his iconoclast-in-chief, Thomas Cromwell, would be stunned: Nearly 500 years after the English Reformation, Canterbury Cathedral, the mother church of the Protestant ...

Pope Leo XIV met Monday for the first time with an organization of clergy abuse survivors and advocates, who said he agreed ...