The Catholic Church on Saturday beatified in Algeria seven French monks and 12 other clergy killed during the countrys civil war, the first ceremony of its kind in a Muslim nation. Papal envoy ...

The Confraternity of Catholic Clergy, representing over 500 Roman Catholic priests and deacons from the U.S., Australia, and the United Kingdom, has issued a statement defending the inviolability of ...

The New Orleans Archdiocese will pay at least $230 million to hundreds of survivors of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement approved by a federal judge on Monday. The settlement follows years of ...

In 2018, Pennsylvania became the epicenter of the Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis with the release of a statewide grand jury report detailing decades-old concealment of the systemic abuse of hundreds ...

Since 2006, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, the state's only diocese, has settled 67 lawsuits for a total of $34 million, Bishop John McDermott said in the court filing on Monday. Then-Rev.

Two Roman Catholic priests who were imprisoned on what human rights officials said were politically related charges were released from prison Thursday following talks with the Vatican, officials said.

TACOMA, Wash. (CN) — Catholic bishops in Washington are suing the state in federal court on Thursday over a new law requiring clergy members to report child abuse, even if the disclosure was revealed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of the Roman Catholic clergy in Washington, backed by the Trump administration, won a victory in court last Friday as they ...

Washington’s leading Catholic bishops filed a lawsuit Thursday contending the new state law requiring religious leaders to report child abuse or neglect, even when it is disclosed in confession, is ...