New Washington State law asks clergy to report child abuse heard in confession. Opponents say it's violating the Constitution.

A group of Western New York parishioners have sued the Buffalo Diocese seeking to stop the diocese from using parish funds ...

Parishioners are now suing the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo to prevent the use of parish funds for a $150 million settlement with child sex abuse survivors.

The Archdiocese of Hartford reached a $2.4 million settlement with a man who says he was repeatedly sexually abused as a ...

Parishioners from five Catholic churches have filed a lawsuit in state court to block the Buffalo Diocese from using parish ...

The Rev. Curtis Lambert — who has “strenuously denied” the allegations, per a letter from Cardinal Blase Cupich — was pulled ...

A childhood clergy sexual abuse survivors group is sharply critical of the timing of the Fresno Catholic Diocese bankruptcy ...

The report, resulting from a five-month inquiry into violence within the school system, proposes a series of measures aimed ...

The Chicago Archdiocese said a local priest is facing an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor at a church in Melrose Park ...

French Archbishop Thibault Verny is the Vatican's new president of its Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors ...

The shy 69-year-old Augustinian missionary has eschewed the headline-grabbing protagonism of past pontiffs in favor of a ...