Religious scholars and political pundits are asking if (and how far) the new Pope Leo XIV will advance the Church, and ...

Polish-American lawyer Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term "genocide," wrote a text titled Soviet Genocide in Ukraine ...

Pope Leo XIV's record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed ...

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But his role in the Catholic hierarchy’s century-long campaign of organized crime against children made me hesitate. When I was 6, I was abused by a Catholic priest. He was a "good-time ...

The priest who complained about “Stockholm Syndrome ... Last year, after he announced plans to educate seminarians outside the church hierarchy, the church charged him with schism and ...

There must have been many times when the Catholic Church hierarchy have heard Father Brian ... “Will no-one rid me of this troublesome priest.” From lunch with the queen to late nights with ...

But is it possible that celibate women priests come before married priests? The position of the church hierarchy on these topics is very clear. It is opposed to both. However, the hierarchy ...

A woman claiming to have been raped by a Catholic priest more than 60 years ago has ... or cover-up of that abuse by the Catholic Church hierarchy." Mahoney was not listed in that report.

New U.S. immigration rules are also going to make it more difficult to employ foreign priests in the United States. The Catholic hierarchy has simply ignored the obvious solution to this problem ...

The 985 priests include Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo ... The text explained that “a deacon is the first level of clergy in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and can perform the sacraments of ...