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Pope Calls For 'All-Out-Battle' On Clergy Sex Abuse, With Few Specifics
In a Mass at the end of his four-day summit, Pope Francis called priests who had abused minors "instruments of Satan." But critics said his address did not offer a strong message against clergy abuse. -
United Methodist Church To Debate LGBTQ Clergy And Same-Sex Weddings
United Methodists are among the last mainline Protestant denominations to address the issue, and some worry it could cause a major rift in the church. -
'A Life Destroyed': Survivors And Pope At Vatican Summit Address Clergy Sex Abuse
One survivor said a priest forced her to have abortions after raping her. The pope said he has come up with 21 "reflection points" designed to address the crisis. -
The Catholic Church Faces Credibility Crisis Amid Summit On Clergy Sex Abuse
Vatican gathering comes in wake of defrocking of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. -
As Pope Holds Sex Abuse Summit, U.S. Catholics Not Hopeful For 'Bold Moves'
American Catholics have become disappointed as Pope Francis described the meeting as featuring "prayer and discernment" — hardly an ambitious vision for what could have been a momentous event. -
Sex Abuse Survivors To Meet With Vatican Summit Organizers
These abuse survivors will not be addressing the summit of church leaders itself. Rather, they will meet Wednesday with the four-member organizing committee to convey their complaints. -
All Revved Up: 'Is The Catholic Church Irredeemable?'
Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett Price discuss the defrocking of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, after the church found him guilty of sexual abuse. -
Vatican Defrocks Former Cardinal McCarrick, Finds Him Guilty Of Sex Abuse
Theodore McCarrick rose to power as a cardinal and Archbishop of Washington, D.C. He became the most senior Catholic Church official in modern times to lose clerical status. -
Covington Catholic Teens Cleared Of Wrongdoing By Detective Agency
The Kentucky students criticized after a viral video seemed to show them mocking a Native American man after the March for Life in Washington have been exonerated by an independent investigation. -
Pope Francis Acknowledges, For First Time, Sexual Abuse Of Nuns By Priests
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, the Roman Catholic Church is being forced to confront evidence that clergy have sexually abused nuns.
