VATICAN CITY (RNS) — From the beginning of his papacy, Pope Francis has waged war against clericalism and called on the clergy to be servants of the people of God. This struggle has continued in the ...

The state Attorney General’s Office may have subpoenaed three Catholic bishops in Washington state seeking “abuse-related documents and evidence,” the Catholic Accountability Project said at a news ...

A Massachusetts-based abuse watchdog has released its first-ever database of priests accused of sexual abuse in the Philippines, listing 84 individuals and blaming the local bishops for attempting to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday scrapped his proposed tribunal to prosecute bishops who covered up for pedophile priests and instead laid out legal procedures to remove them if the ...

(RNS) — In a joint address, AME bishops called for the creation of ‘accountability measures for every elected and appointed leader within our church.’ (RNS) — The African Methodist Episcopal Church, ...

Nov. 26 -- Faced with millions of irate followers and a cascade of media scrutiny, the U.S. Catholic bishops were in what could only be described as a near-panic when they met in June to deal with the ...

VATICAN CITY — Few could have predicted that a comment Pope Francis made during a 2018 visit to Chile would blow up into the biggest crisis of his papacy, and one that eventually set the Catholic ...

4. Bishops do not allow media to investigate cases against priests. First, because media is not empowered to investigate ...

The announcement that Pope Francis had accepted the resignation of Archbishop Andrzej Dziega of Szczecin-Kamien with no explanation in a Feb. 24 statement from the apostolic nunciature caused a ...

ST. LOUIS -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said he believes a new church policy adequately holds bishops accountable for sexually abusive clergy members. Some critics have ...

DALLAS, June 13 -- The nation's Roman Catholic bishops were bluntly told today that they bear primary responsibility for the sex abuse scandal that is gripping their church and that regaining the ...