Some see Pope Leo XIV's failure to protect victims from priests accused of abuse as 'negligence.' But that negligence destroyed lives like mine.

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As the papal conclave gets underway in Vatican City, Holy Cross Catholic Church pastor Father Noah Carter recalls his experience studying there as a seminarian during the 2013 election of Pope Francis ...

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until ...

Survivors say the new pontiff must urgently improve on Pope Francis’s complicated legacy by committing to transparency and ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

The hierarchy of the church is a divinely instituted ... Some are tempted to complain, and do complain, about the pope, their bishop, their priest or perhaps their deacon. My challenge to all ...

Illinois and Indiana shepherds will join San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone on the Advisory Board of Religious ...

SHARON — Last week, Father James Power found himself thrilled to be wrong. “Before the new pope was actually named, I was ...

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 ...

Zuppi, 69, came up as a street priest in the image of Francis ... In that job he would have kept in regular contact with the Catholic hierarchy in the part of the world that counts still counts ...