The International Criminal Court rejected a request by SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), to investigate Benedict XVI for crimes against humanity over the priestly sex abuse scandal. SNAP is an abuse victims’ advocacy group based in the…

In Melbourne alone, 29 Catholic Priests are acknowledged as guilty of sexually abusing children. But the Archbishop of Melbourne told Victoria’s child abuse inquiry the church had paid compensation to victims of 59 priests who had worked in the archdiocese….

The Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, John J. Myers, is being criticized for mishandling a priest who “attended youth retreats and heard confessions of minors in defiance of a court-ordered lifetime ban on ministry to children.” Parishioners at St. Mary’s…

For the first time, a Roman Catholic Church official has been convicted in the United States of covering up sex-abuse claims against Roman Catholic priests. Monsignor William Lynn, 61, the former secretary for clergy at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, was…

The Catholic Church says people under pressure to work extra hours are stressing their families and that Sunday should be used as a day of rest and prayer. And they want governments and communities to support families financially so that…

Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, attended the papal installation Mass of Pope Francis I. No Greek Orthodox patriarch has attended a papal installation Mass for almost 1000 years, since 1054 when the split between east and west occurred….

The Catholic Church has reached a settlement in the child sex-abuse case in Los Angeles of approximately $10 million, not including the costs of therapy, attorney’s fees and other costs. This is in addition to the $2.5 billion that the…

Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney has said that the story of Adam and Eve is a myth and is designed as a religious story for religious purposes. Pell appeared with notorious atheist Richard Dawkins on an Australian TV Question…

A week before Cardinal Timothy Dolan was to fly to Rome for the papal conclave lawyers grilled him for hours behind closed doors about child sex-abuse by priests in his former diocese of Milwaukee. The lawyers represent hundreds of victims…