For more than three decades, the Catholic Church has been rocked by sex abuse scandals spanning the globe. And for decades, the church has been accused of protecting itself rather than the victims ...

For decades, the Catholic Church has dealt with the priest sex abuse crisis as allegations have surfaced worldwide. The church has paid out more than $3 billion to settle sexual abuse claims ...

Before Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI was the leader of the Catholic Church. Benedict, a German-born academic, was one of the oldest popes to take charge of the church from 2005 until his retirement ...

Below is a timeline of the Catholic Church’s investigations into and decisions about Medjugorje. April 10, 1991: After local bishops formed three different commissions to study the phenomena at ...

The two charges concerned the underage female victim who said she was sexually assaulted when she attended Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Conroe in 2000. La Rosa-Lopez was indicted with indecency ...

making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a global turmoil and conflict. Soft-spoken Robert Francis Prevost is first pope from the United ...