Tag: SEX ABUSE

The pope last held an audience with a public crowd in early March.

The week after he slapped a woman's hand away to free himself from her grip, Pope Francis has kissed a ...

Pope Francis, 83, had a sharp encounter with a woman on Tuesday evening during a walkabout in St. Peters Square.

Catholic Church leader Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Brazilian bishop Vilson Dias de Oliveira, the Vatican said Friday ...

Since 1950, as many as 100,000 children became victims of clerical sexual abuse in the US, according to the estimates ...

Pope Francis refused the resignation of a French cardinal convicted of covering up sexual abuse.

Four out of five Vatican clerics are gay, says French sociologist Frederic Martel.

Pope Francis gathers bishops from around the world at the Vatican this week for a hotly-awaited summit on tackling the ...

Pope Francis has said he is ashamed of the Catholic Church's failure to adequately address the "repellent crimes" of sex ...