Portugal's Catholic Church has reiterated new safeguarding commitments in line with an independent commission on sexual abuse by clergy, although most of its dioceses also reported inconsistencies in ...

With all of the attention being paid to the new encyclical from Pope Leo, there has been a lessening of attention to many of the burning ecclesial controversies simmering on the back burner. I am ...

MADRID, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Spain's Catholic Church on Tuesday apologised to victims of sexual abuse by priests, but questioned the accuracy of a new survey that suggested such abuse was far more ...

Today's report out of Pennsylvania is hardly the first detailing extensive allegations of sex abuse in the Catholic Church. We have heard these stories at least since 2002 when The Boston Globe ...

The sexual abuse scandal dogging the Catholic Church is the result of a "cultural problem" that will take time to remedy, the Vaticans chief spokesman told Irish broadcaster RTE on Friday. Pope ...

John Gehring, who manned the Catholic desk at the progressive nonprofit group Faith in Public Life for many years, has published a new book, Reclaiming American Catholicism: Faith, Politics, and the ...