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Is the Catholic Church willing or even able to reform itself? Questions that are difficult, maybe impossible to answer at ...

Pope Francis addressed the Belgian victims of clerical sexual abuse again on Saturday offering words of contrition in a ...

Earlier on Friday, Belgium's prime minister blasted the pontiff for the Catholic Church's horrific legacy, demanding ...

The speech by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo was one of the most pointed ever directed at the pope during a foreign trips, ...

Vermont’s Catholic church has filed for bankruptcy protection as it faces more than 30 lawsuits alleging child sex abuse by clergy decades ago Vermont’s Catholic church has filed for ...

Vermont’s Catholic church has filed for bankruptcy protection as it faces more than 30 lawsuits alleging child sex abuse by clergy decades ago, according to a filing in federal bankruptcy court.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington filed for bankruptcy Monday as the church faces dozens of new lawsuits alleging decades-old sexual abuse by clergy, according to a court filing. The Vermont ...

were compiled with the Catholic hierarchy's cooperation by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Francis Sullivan, chief executive of the Church's Truth, Justice and ...