RETIRED POPE BENEDICT 'ON A PILGRIMAGE HOME'

Sunday will mark five years since the pope stunned the world with his resignation... READ MORE›

POPE'S ADVISERS SAY HE GOT ABUSE VICTIM'S LETTER, DESPITE DENIAL

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›

AP EXCLUSIVE: DESPITE DENIAL, POPE GOT ABUSE VICTIMS LETTER

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›

POPE SENDS SEX ABUSE INVESTIGATOR TO CHILE

The Pope has been criticised since Bishop Barros was announced bishop of Osorno, in south-central Chile, in 2015 despite stiff opposition... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCIS WARNS OF THE DANGERS OF 'SATANIC' FAKE NEWS

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›

POPE PARTIALLY APOLOGIZES TO CHILEAN ABUSE VICTIMS, BUT STILL BACKS CONTROVERSIAL BISHOP

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 SORRY FOR UPSETTING ABUSE VICTIMS

Pope Francis has apologised for remarks he made last week in Chile defending a bishop accused of covering up sexual abuse... READ MORE›

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With 120 parishes, the Catholic Church in Paris is one of the biggest diocese in Europe... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCIS ANGERS CHILE AFTER ACCUSING SEX ABUSE VICTIMS OF SLANDERING BISHOP

The day they bring me proof against Bishop Barros, I'll speak, he said... READ MORE›

MORE CHILE CHURCHES TORCHED AS VISITING POPE BEGS FORGIVENESS FOR 'IRREPARABLE HARM' FROM SEX ABUSE

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›

AS POPE FRANCIS VISITS, CHILEANS QUESTION THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

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›

3 CHURCHES FIREBOMBED DURING POPE'S VISIT TO CHILE

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›

AIDE MISMANAGEMENT CLAIMS MEANT TO SMEAR HONDURAS CARDINAL

The Vatican on Friday confirmed that Francis has ordered an investigation into allegations of financial irregularities in the Tegucigalpa archdiocese... READ MORE›

BERNARD LAW WAS THE FACE OF A DYSFUNCTIONAL CATHOLIC CHURCH

In New Jersey, former priest James Hanley became one of the state's more notorious predator priests... READ MORE›

CARDINAL BERNARD LAW, CENTRAL FIGURE IN BOSTON SEXUAL ABUSE SCANDAL, DIES AT 86

How the boston globe exposed the abuse scandal that rocked the catholic church... READ MORE›

'LOUD FENCE' RIBBONS REMOVED FROM BALLARAT CATHEDRAL THREE DAYS AFTER ROYAL COMMISSION FINDINGS

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

'I'm going to Canberra' For abuse survivor Rob Walsh, the fight for justice hasn't ended... READ MORE›

'CHANGES MUST BE MADE': SHOCKING AUSTRALIAN CHILD ABUSE INQUIRY ENDS

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›

ARCHBISHOP REJECTS CALL TO REPORT CONFESSIONS

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›

AUSTRALIAN CHILD ABUSE INQUIRY RECOMMENDS END TO MANDATORY CELIBACY FOR CLERGY

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›

AUSTRALIA CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE INQUIRY REPORTS 'CATASTROPHIC FAILURES OF LEADERSHIP'

It also claimed celibacy contributed to child abuse and that it should be made voluntary for clergy in the Catholic Church... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN ABUSE REPORT CALLS FOR END TO SANCTITY OF CONFESSION

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›

LOST IN TRANSLATION? POPE PONDERS AN UPDATE TO LORDS PRAYER

Pope Francis has generally shown a willingness to rethink liturgical translations... READ MORE›

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A VATICAN SHOT ACROSS THE BOW FOR HARD-LINE U.S. CATHOLICS

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 DONT HAVE TO BELIEVE IN GOD TO GO TO HEAVEN

Pope francis assures atheists you don't have to believe in god to go to heaven... READ MORE›

GEORGE PELL TOLD TO FACE COURT ON HISTORICAL SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGES

Australia's most senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell, is charged with historical sexual assault offences... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCIS DECLARES EVOLUTION AND BIG BANG THEORY ARE REAL AND GOD IS NOT 'A MAGICIAN WITH A MAGIC WAND'

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›

TRUDEAU ASKS POPE FRANCIS TO APOLOGISE FOR SCHOOLS

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: CORRUPT SHOULD BE TIED TO A ROCK AND THROWN INTO THE SEA

Pope francis gives fire-and-brimstone sermon, saying the corrupt should be tied to a rock and thrown into the sea... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCISS EDICT ON CLIMATE CHANGE WILL ANGER DENIERS AND US CHURCHES

Pope francis's edict on climate change will anger deniers and us churches... READ MORE›

KEEP THE FAITH IN OUR TRYING TIMES

The pope usually conducts an Urbu et Orbi blessing -- Latin for To the City and the World -- just after the Easter Mass... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCIS IN SWEEPING ENCYCLICAL CALLS FOR SWIFT ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE

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›

BEFORE POPE FRANCIS MET KIM DAVIS HE MET WITH GAY EX-STUDENT

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›

BRAZIL ROCKED BY ABORTION FOR 9-YEAR-OLD RAPE VICTIM

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›

POPE FRANCIS TO EXPLORE CLIMATES EFFECT ON WORLDS POOR

VATICAN CITY -- Ban Ki-moon arrived at the Vatican with his own college of cardinals... READ MORE›

VATICAN FIRES GAY PRIEST ON EVE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS MEETING

Charamsa can no longer work at the Vatican or its pontifical universities, Lombardi said... READ MORE›

POPE AIDE GEORGE PELL CHARGED WITH CHILD SEX ABUSE

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 IN AMERICA A HUMBLE POPE CHALLENGING THE WORLD

Francis is not just trying to change the Roman Catholic Church... READ MORE›

POPE SAYS CHRISTIANS SHOULD APOLOGIZE TO GAY PEOPLE

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›

POPE FRANCIS CONDEMNS 'MONEY CULT'

'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›

POPE FRANCIS SNUBS THE DALAI LAMA AT NOBEL PEACE PRIZE EVENT

Instead the South American pontiff will send a video message to the conference of Nobel Peace Prize winners... READ MORE›

CATHOLIC CHURCH APOLOGISES FOR ROLE IN 'FORCED ADOPTIONS' OVER 30-YEAR PERIOD

Adoption reached a peak in 1968, when more than 16,000 babies born to unmarried mothers were handed over to new families... READ MORE›

MY TRAVELS WITH POPE FRANCIS IN BOLIVIA

An estimated 1.5 million people are expected for Tuesday's Mass with Pope Francis in Quito, Ecuador... READ MORE›

THE POPE'S 'BLIND SPOT' ON SEXUAL ABUSE

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›

CAN POPE FRANCIS CLEAN UP GODS BANK?

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›

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, POPE FRANCIS - FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T RETIRE

Will the catholic church ever earn women's forgiveness?... READ MORE›

CARDINAL GEORGE PELL'S LEGAL BILLS WON'T BE PAID BY SYDNEY ARCHDIOCESE, ARCHBISHOP SAYS

The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney says it will not pay its former archbishop Cardinal George Pell's legal costs... READ MORE›

VATICAN IS SPLIT ON RULES FOR A MORE INCLUSIVE CATHOLIC CHURCH

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›

VATICAN ARRESTS 2 IN CONNECTION WITH LEAKED DOCUMENTS

His book, he said, described a Vatican that is very different from Pope Francis' vision of a church for the poor... READ MORE›

CARDINAL CORMAC MURPHY-O'CONNOR DIES AT 85

Retired leader of Roman Catholic church in England and Wales was appointed cardinal by pope in 2001... READ MORE›

THOUSANDS MARCH IN MEXICO AGAINST PROPOSAL TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

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›

CONSERVATIVE US CARDINAL DEMOTED BY POPE, HE TELLS BUZZFEED

Cardinal Raymond Burke leaves the Synod Hall in Vatican City... READ MORE›