World Feb 22 Vatican sex abuse summit seeks new culture of accountability Pope Francis summoned 190 religious leaders for a four-day tutorial on preventing abuse after the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal erupted again last year.
World Feb 21 At Vatican summit, Pope demands bishops act now on abuse Pope Francis opened a landmark sex abuse prevention summit Thursday by warning senior Catholic figures that the faithful are demanding concrete action against predator priests and not just words of condemnation. Victims then told the bishops of the searing emotional…
World Feb 18 Sex abuse survivors to meet with Vatican summit organizers The organizers of Pope Francis' summit on preventing clergy sex abuse will meet this week with a dozen abuse victims who have descended on Rome to protest the Catholic Church's response to the crisis and demand an end to decades…
World Feb 16 Vatican defrocks former US cardinal McCarrick over sex abuse Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing confession and sexual crimes against minors and adults, the Holy See said Saturday.
World Feb 09 Vatican ex-doctrine chief pens manifesto amid pope criticism The Vatican’s former doctrine chief has penned a “manifesto of faith” to remind Catholics of basic tenets of belief amid what he says is “growing confusion” in the church today.
World Feb 05 Pope publicly acknowledges problem of sexual abuse of nuns by priests, bishops: 'We're working on it' In the past year, The Associated Press and other media have reported on cases of abused nuns in India, Africa, Europe and South America — evidence that the problem is by no means limited to a certain geographic area.
World Feb 05 Pope celebrates first-ever papal mass in Arabian Peninsula ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Pope Francis ministered on Tuesday to the thriving Catholic community in the United Arab Emirates as he concluded his historic visit to the Arabian Peninsula with the first-ever papal Mass here and a…
World Feb 03 Pope in UAE for historic trip after call for Yemen relief Pope Francis has landed in Abu Dhabi on the first papal trip ever to the Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Islam.
World Jan 23 Amid border wall debate, Pope Francis says fear of migration is 'making us crazy' Francis famously has called for "bridges, not walls." After celebrating Mass in 2016 on the Mexican side of the U.S. border, he denounced anyone who wants to build a wall to keep out migrants as "not Christian."…
World Dec 28 Vatican hears testimony from man who alleges ex-Cardinal McCarrick abused him James Grein, who testified Thursday in New York, says ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick sexually abused him for years starting when he was 11.