CHICAGO (AP) — Survivors of clergy sexual abuse amplified calls Tuesday for a global zero-tolerance policy from the new ...

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

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, ...

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.

Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin ... Public concern over Francis’ health bubbled up again in November 2023, when he excused himself from reading prepared remarks at a meeting with ...

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 ...