Saying that the Catholic Church did not protect children is just as wrong. It was the bishops. It was the hierarchy. We should not blame the people of God for the sins of the hierarchy.

I was sitting at my desk when he told me that NCR's next edition would contain an extensive and rather explosive report detailing the abuse of children ... Catholic priests and the failure of ...

It is time to face the horrible truth: The Catholic ... of children. It chronicles in detail how the Catholic hierarchy from the diocese to the Vatican worked not only mitigate the church's ...

From my perspective as a Catholic scholar of religion, one of the challenges in tackling this issue is the hierarchy of the church itself. It is still difficult to hold high-ranking clerics ...

allowing many adults who had been abused by priests as children to bring new charges. Republican legislators, along with leaders from the Catholic Church, opposed the measure. [Read: Pope Francis ...

From my perspective as a Catholic scholar of religion, one of the challenges in tackling this issue is the hierarchy of the church itself. It is still difficult to hold high-ranking clerics ...