Scott Hartman, a former Catholic Foundation executive, was indicted Thursday on three counts of pandering sexually oriented material of a minor, disseminating material harmful to a juvenile, tampering ...

Christopher Saunders had spent 25 years forging a career in the Catholic Church, but simmering beneath his philanthropy was a shocking truth: the clergyman was living a sinful and sleazy double life.

The registered sex offender, identified as Jerry Sidell, does not face pending charges in South Carolina, and church leadership maintains safeguards were in place, but a member who came forward to FOX ...

In her blockbuster report released Wednesday, Attorney General Andrea Campbell found 90 clergy who had been accused of abuse ...

A top Australian Catholic bishop has acknowledged the eight-year delay in bringing a fellow bishop to justice on charges he sexually abused young Indigenous men. But he defended the church’s decision ...

At the end of December 2021, the diocese announced that Martineau would move to St. George Parish in Worcester. In a Dec. 12, 2022, statement, the diocese said it had scheduled the transfer so ...

A criminal complaint reviewed by RNS revealed previously undisclosed details about sexual abuse allegations against Seth Day, husband of bestselling Adventist author and speaker Heather Thompson Day.

Albert Wiggan describes the jailing of disgraced bishop Christopher Saunders as like “cutting off the head of a snake”. The Aboriginal community leader describes the Catholic cleric as an “evil ...

A former Catholic priest was found guilty on Thursday of sexually abusing a student at a Catonsville Catholic school in the 1990s. William Mannion Jr. was accused of abusing the student, who was 10 ...

Notified multiple times, the bishop of the diocese, Robert Joseph McManus of Worcester, sought to do what church leaders before him had done so often: transfer Martineau to another parish where he ...

A youth pastor has been arrested after agents with the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation said he had sexual contact with children. Officers with the Duncan Police Department asked OSBI to investigate ...

The former bishop of Australia’s Broome diocese was sentenced Wednesday to six years and six months in prison for sexually abusing two young Aboriginal men. Bishop Christopher Saunders, who led the ...