Tony Gribben says the Justice Minister should end or limit the use of character references in sex offence cases.

New recordings of church officials spurred the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, to file an updated ...

Bishop Mark O'Connell will officially assume leadership of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, following a prayer service ...

The Catholic University of Indonesia, Saint Paul Ruteng, has dismissed a priest lecturer following an internal investigation into the sexual assault of a student. Rector Father Agustinus Manfred Habur ...

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The Archdiocese of Chicago faces new accusations and three lawsuits accusing the Catholic church of keeping two priests in ...

Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of an ailing Spanish bishop who is under church investigation for allegedly sexually abusing a young seminarian in the 1990s.

Pope Leo accepts resignation of bishop accused of abuse in first known case for new pontiff - The diocese of Cádiz denied accusations against Zornoza but confirmed the investigation was being carried ...

Gateway Church and several church elders want an appellate court to overturn a recent ruling that allowed a sexual abuse victim's defamation lawsuit to proceed. The megachurch filed the appeal in the ...

New Jersey’s highest court ruled Thursday that expert testimony about shaken baby syndrome is scientifically unreliable and inadmissible in two upcoming trials, a decision that comes as the long-held ...

Survivors of sexual abuse in churches in Northern Ireland have written to the first and deputy first ministers to say there is an "emerging crisis of confidence" in Stormont's handling of the matter.