Australia’s Catholic bishops are being urged to confront the church’s legacy of clerical abuse with a public act of remorse, following examples set in France and Peru.

VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Leo XIV made plenty of enemies helping dismantle a powerful Catholic movement whose leaders physically, sexually, spiritually and psychologically abused members. As Leo's ...

Cardinals and bishops in Peru fell to their knees at a Mass of reparation, asking forgiveness to poor farmers for the suffering they endured at the hands of the now-suppressed lay movement Sodalitium ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — After years of allegations of land dispossession by a now-dissolved Catholic group, the highest ecclesiastical authorities in the Andean country on Saturday held a symbolic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Vatican investigators Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu, right, from Spain, and Archbishop Charles Scicluna, from Malta, walk ...