Kevin O’Neill uses the case study of a predatory Catholic priest shuffled to Guatemala to discuss provocative ideas about ...

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The report by AG Peter Neronha says the Diocese of Providence allowed "dozens of priests" to abuse "hundreds of children," ...

Under the legislation, priests and pastors would be forced to report child abuse if they have a reasonable suspicion “to ...

Washington State is backing off its controversial push to force Catholic priests into violating the seal of confession in order to comply with a law requiring them to report suspected child abuse.

A new bill before the Arizona House of Representatives could force priests and pastors to break their seal of confession. The ...

A Catholic priest who worked in Orlando churches for more than a decade faces sexual abuse accusations from sheriff’s investigators and a lawsuit that accuses him of grooming and then abusing a child ...

Ahead of Pope Francis' four-day summit on preventing clergy sexual abuse, the Vatican has admitted there are secret rules for priests who father children, despite their vows of celibacy. The New York ...

NEW ORLEANS — A man working as a Roman Catholic priest in New Orleans positioned himself as a mentor to a young disabled boy grieving two family deaths – and then exploited the proximity to abuse him ...

Father Patrick McCarthy was brutally murdered in 1988. The two half-brothers in prison for the killing say he sexually abused them for years ...