For decades, the law that governs the Roman Catholic Church has required every diocese within the church to maintain secret archives of documents containing sensitive material and “acts of criminal ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Since the break of the sex abuse scandal, the Roman Catholic Church has lost all grounds to speak on matters of faith and morals.

The death of Pope Francis, after a very public diminishment, closes a signal chapter in Catholic history with absolutely no certainty about who or what comes next. Rather than reflexively corralling ...

A slew of court documents recently unsealed by New Jersey's Supreme Court reveals the secret quest of the Catholic Church to quash the state's grand jury investigation of decades of clergy sexual ...

The judge in the Santa Rosa Diocese’s bankruptcy case recently put a small set of lawsuits on the path to trial, where they are expected to set a baseline for the diocese’s potential ...

On a special episode (first released on June 12, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: The Roman Catholic Church hasn’t been known for its inclusive stance with the LGBTQ+ community historically. But over the ...

Mark Ford, extradited from Indiana to New Orleans jail, faces life in prison if convicted of sexual abuse charges.

VATICAN CITY - Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian boy who built websites to spread his faith, will be proclaimed the Catholic Church's first saint of the millennial generation this month, elevating ...

As Sarah Mullally becomes the first female Archbishop of Canterbury, her rise could influence the Vatican’s debate over women in ministry.