The Archdiocese of Santa Fe is back in bankruptcy court after an abuse survivor has filed a motion alleging church officials are violating a key non-monetary agreement of their recent $121.5 million settlement with survivors.
German Jesuit Fr. Hans Zollner has resigned from Pope Francis' child protection commission and has launched searing criticisms against the organization's leadership and its alleged lack of transparency.
One of the first tasks of the U.S. bishops' lay-run National Review Board was to thoroughly investigate the nature of the clergy sexual abuse and cover-up scandal in the U.S. A key ally was the future Pope Benedict XVI.
The case involving Jesuit Fr. Marko Rupnik recapitulates and casts a light on new dimensions that have emerged in the Catholic Church's abuse scandal in recent years. I want to highlight 10 dimensions that I see.
Retired Archbishop Jean-Pierre Grallet of Strasbourg, France, admitted making "inappropriate gestures" to an adult woman when he was a Franciscan priest in the 1980s.
The synodal process is a mature fruit of Vatican II. But this will be a failed promise if the synod on synodality fails to address the abuse crisis, especially in the Catholic Church, as one of the signs of our times.
National synodal documents from around the world call for more lay inclusion in church decision-making, reports Sr. Christine Schenk. But will the process itself include laypeople in the deliberations?
The Vatican reprimanded a retired bishop for how he handled clergy abuse allegations. But no one knows details about the case or a whistleblower's role.
For the first time during his tour of Canada, Pope Francis on July 28 apologized for the "evil" of clergy sex abuse, vowing that Catholic Church leaders must pledge to "never again" allow such atrocities to occur.
