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News Wrap: Netanyahu calls for early elections in Israel; deadly attack in Afghanistan
In our Monday news wrap, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to dissolve Parliament and call for early elections, in April. The announcement came upon mounting divisions within his right-wing coalition, including the recent resignation of his defense minister. Also,…
Pope Francis leads Christmas Eve Mass at Vatican
"An insatiable greed marks all human history, even today, when paradoxically a few dine luxuriantly while all too many go without the daily bread needed to survive," Francis said.
Church credibility at risk over sex abuse, Vatican committee says
The Vatican on Tuesday released the first details of Pope Francis' upcoming high-stakes sex abuse prevention summit, making clear that bishops attending the gathering must reach out to victims before they get to Rome and that accountability is very much…
Vatican investigating reports of Chilean priests abusing nuns
The scandal at the Institute of the Good Samaritan was revealed publicly in an investigative report by Chilean national television earlier this year at the height of outrage over how Chilean Catholic hierarchy covered up decades of sexual abuse of…
Several Roman Catholic bishops on Tuesday urged colleagues at their national meeting to take some sort of action on the clergy sex abuse crisis despite a Vatican order to delay voting on key proposals.
Pope Francis accepted Cardinal Donald Wuerl’s resignation with a controversial letter defending him. Wuerl was under pressure to step down after a Pennsylvania grand jury report implicated him in covering up sexual abuse. John Yang speaks to John Carr of…
Pope Francis authorized Baltimore Bishop William Lori to investigate allegations that Michael Bransfield, a West Virginia bishop, sexually harassed adults.
Pope Francis told newly ordained bishops Saturday that they must reject all forms of abuse and work in communion to fight the clerical culture that has fueled the sex abuse and cover-up scandal rocking his papacy.
Pope Francis declined Sunday to confirm or deny claims by the Vatican's retired ambassador to the U.S. that he knew in 2013 about sexual misconduct allegations against the former archbishop of Washington, Theodore McCarrick, but rehabilitated him anyway.
