Sunday will mark five years since the pope stunned the world with his resignation... READ MORE›
During the trip, Francis callously dismissed accusations against Barros as slander, seemingly unaware that victims had placed him at the scene of Karadima's crimes... READ MORE›
During the trip, Francis callously dismissed accusations against Barros as slander, seemingly unaware that victims had placed him at the scene of Karadima's crimes... READ MORE›
The Pope has been criticised since Bishop Barros was announced bishop of Osorno, in south-central Chile, in 2015 despite stiff opposition... READ MORE›
He issued the unusual warning in a document issued in advance of the Catholic Church's World Day of Social Communications, which takes place on May 13... READ MORE›
Juan Carlos Cruz, a high-profile Barros accuser, later took to Twitter to voice his outrage over the pope's remarks... READ MORE›
Pope Francis has apologised for remarks he made last week in Chile defending a bishop accused of covering up sexual abuse... READ MORE›
With 120 parishes, the Catholic Church in Paris is one of the biggest diocese in Europe... READ MORE›
The day they bring me proof against Bishop Barros, I'll speak, he said... READ MORE›
In his first event of the day, Francis met privately with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and addressed lawmakers, judges and other authorities at La Moneda palace... READ MORE›
Just 36 percent of Chileans have confidence in the Catholic Church -- the lowest in all of Latin America -- according to the Chilean newspaper, La Tercera... READ MORE›
In his first event of the day, Francis met privately with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and addressed lawmakers, judges and other authorities at La Moneda palace... READ MORE›
The Vatican on Friday confirmed that Francis has ordered an investigation into allegations of financial irregularities in the Tegucigalpa archdiocese... READ MORE›
In New Jersey, former priest James Hanley became one of the state's more notorious predator priests... READ MORE›
How the boston globe exposed the abuse scandal that rocked the catholic church... READ MORE›
He said abuse survivors had requested that the ribbons stay on the fence until the royal commission ended... READ MORE›
'I'm going to Canberra' For abuse survivor Rob Walsh, the fight for justice hasn't ended... READ MORE›
That was the stark warning of an exhaustive five-year investigation by an Australia Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse that concluded Thursday... READ MORE›
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse had the power to look at any private, public or non-government body involved with children... READ MORE›
Prosecute clergy for failing to report abuse Recommendations include the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference request that the Vatican consider introducing voluntary celibacy for clergy... READ MORE›
It also claimed celibacy contributed to child abuse and that it should be made voluntary for clergy in the Catholic Church... READ MORE›
The inquiry heard previously that the Australian Catholic Church paid A 276 million 212 million in compensation to thousands of child abuse victims since 1980... READ MORE›
Pope Francis has generally shown a willingness to rethink liturgical translations... READ MORE›
American Catholic conservatives once unacquainted with being out of papal favor have stewed privately and expressed horror publicly on numerous right-wing Catholic blogs... READ MORE›
Pope francis assures atheists you don't have to believe in god to go to heaven... READ MORE›
Australia's most senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell, is charged with historical sexual assault offences... READ MORE›
The theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not a magician with a magic wand, Pope Francis has declared... READ MORE›
In 2008, former prime minister Stephen Harper issued an apology on behalf of Canadians, calling it a sad chapter in our history ... READ MORE›
Pope francis gives fire-and-brimstone sermon, saying the corrupt should be tied to a rock and thrown into the sea... READ MORE›
Pope francis's edict on climate change will anger deniers and us churches... READ MORE›
The pope usually conducts an Urbu et Orbi blessing -- Latin for To the City and the World -- just after the Easter Mass... READ MORE›
Governments are now developing domestic climate-change plans to prepare for a United Nations summit meeting on the issue in Paris in December... READ MORE›
Earlier on Friday, the Vatican said that Archbishop Vigano had arranged the pope's meetings in Washington, including the one with Ms. Davis... READ MORE›
The young girl at the centre of the case escaped excommunication only because she is still a child in the eyes of Church authorities... READ MORE›
VATICAN CITY -- Ban Ki-moon arrived at the Vatican with his own college of cardinals... READ MORE›
Charamsa can no longer work at the Vatican or its pontifical universities, Lombardi said... READ MORE›
For years, Pell has faced allegations that he mishandled cases of clergy abuse when he was archbishop of Melbourne and, later, Sydney... READ MORE›
Francis is not just trying to change the Roman Catholic Church... READ MORE›
Repeating the teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church about respecting and not discriminating against gays, Pope Francis said that one could condemn certain behavior... READ MORE›
'Golden calf' Pope Francis said life had become worse for people in both rich and poor countries, the BBC's David Willey in Rome reports... READ MORE›
Instead the South American pontiff will send a video message to the conference of Nobel Peace Prize winners... READ MORE›
Adoption reached a peak in 1968, when more than 16,000 babies born to unmarried mothers were handed over to new families... READ MORE›
An estimated 1.5 million people are expected for Tuesday's Mass with Pope Francis in Quito, Ecuador... READ MORE›
Charges of sexual assault against one of the Pope's top advisers, Cardinal George Pell, highlights what one observer calls Francis' blind spot on sexual abuse... READ MORE›
Within weeks of taking office, Francis set about tackling the problem of the Vatican bank and the wider finances of the Holy See in three ways... READ MORE›
Will the catholic church ever earn women's forgiveness?... READ MORE›
The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney says it will not pay its former archbishop Cardinal George Pell's legal costs... READ MORE›
They remained firmly shut to same-sex marriage even as the document said gay people should be treated with respect... READ MORE›
De Klerk, South Africa's last white president, but neither of them alluded to the Dalai Lama... READ MORE›
His book, he said, described a Vatican that is very different from Pope Francis' vision of a church for the poor... READ MORE›
Retired leader of Roman Catholic church in England and Wales was appointed cardinal by pope in 2001... READ MORE›
Same-sex marriage is permitted in Mexico City, as well as in several states including Coahuila, Quintana Roo, Jalisco, Nayarit, Chihuahua and Sonora... READ MORE›
Cardinal Raymond Burke leaves the Synod Hall in Vatican City... READ MORE›
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