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…

Italian media reported that Pope Benedict XVI resigned after a “disturbing” confidential report of yet another Vatican scandal landed on his desk. Benedict had commissioned three cardinals (all over 80 years of age) to verify allegations exposed in the so-called…