But a papal commission examining the question said further study was required, and advised that women should be given other ...

Similar cases against the Catholic Church in the United States have resulted in billions of dollars in payouts, as priests ...

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 ...

Robert Siegel turns to John Allen, Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, for an explanation of the Roman Catholic Church's structure. Allen is author of the forthcoming book ...

Francis fashioned a profoundly reformist papacy, deeply divisive within the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis is silhouetted at the end of a private audience with the President of Equatorial Guinea ...

The Roman Catholic Church in New York and more than 1,300 accusers on Monday announced they have agreed to mediation to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four deaf Wisconsin men were some of the first to seek justice after suffering childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a priest, and a new documentary about the Catholic Church's ...

Editor's note: According to a 2008 Pew Research study, one of 10 U.S. adults is a former Catholic. Some have moved on to other denominations, others have no church affiliation at all, still others ...

At a glance, Spirit of Grace church in Beaverton might appear to be just one of many progressive Protestant churches, not unusual in the Pacific Northwest. Its website and featured introduction video ...

Fear and uncertainty, but also an invincible devotion to God, permeated a Roman Catholic Church in Riverhead where hundreds of immigrants gathered for Sunday Mass despite President Donald Trump’s ...