For the Catholic Church, no aspect of Pope Francis' record is more sensitive or contentious than his handling of the sexual ...

Again, we’re talking about ... and sexual predator, what he is accused of doing is too grotesque to describe. It is fair to say that Pope Francis did not handle the Rupnik case well at all, ...

Two years previous, Pope Francis once again found himself at the center of ... Soldiers seized the pair in 1976, and Orlando said guards accused him of being a guerrilla and "having sexual ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear ...

The picture, which was shared by official White House social media accounts, comes as Catholics mourn the death of Pope ...

The Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests claims Pope Leo XIV mishandled two different cases of sexual abuse by ...

Italian prelate Matteo Zuppi is pro-LGBTQ and made headlines when he was accused of holding ... conclave will gather again in actuality as the Vatican revealed that Pope Francis, 88, the leader ...

Activists are fighting a church that wants to put the scandal behind it and a public that may be tiring of it.

Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged deeply rooted norms ... to the very highest levels of the Catholic Church. He was accused, at first, of being insensitive in his slow response to the crisis.

But he was dogged by some high-profile cases where he seemed to side with accused priests. In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI resigned in the first such papal retirement in 600 years, and Francis was ...