Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Palm Sunday in 2002 as I prepared to begin Mass, I took a brown paper bag with the eyes, nose and mouth cut out and placed it ...

As Roman Catholic leaders took the pulpit for Easter services, they asked for prayers for the future of a church rocked by a growing sexual abuse scandal. The leader of the nation's largest Catholic ...

While serving as a Long Island bishop, his earlier tenure in Boston came under scrutiny during investigations of sex-abuse ...

A New Jersey Catholic diocese outside Philadelphia has agreed to pay $180 million in a clergy sexual abuse settlement, the latest in a church scandal set off more than two decades ago. The settlement, ...

Advocates against priest sex abuse are calling on Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch to apologize for comments he recently made on a radio talk show that seemed to minimize the scope and severity of the ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV said in his first interview as history's first American pope that he has no intention of getting involved in U.S. politics but will raise his voice on issues of concern to the ...

In this Aug. 26, 2018 photo, Rob Super, right, holds a sign as nearly two dozen people gather outside the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, Minn., to demand action from the Catholic Church and show ...

Cardinal Bernard Law's resignation as archbishop Friday may help ease the sex abuse crisis he mismanaged in Boston, but will have less of an impact nationwide as dioceses face scandals of their own ...