Pete Hegseth's wife Jennifer Rauchet is under fire for Signal chat leak controversy. She was reportedly present in a second group where Pet...

Since 2013, Pope Francis has confronted the Catholic Church's child sex abuse scandal by sanctioning clergy and mandating reporting. Despit...

Pope Francis has faced the challenge of clerical child sex abuse since becoming the Catholic Church's head in 2013. Despite key measures li...

Benedict stunned the world on Feb. 11, 2013, when he announced, in his typical, soft-spoken Latin, that he no longer had the strength to ru...

"His situation has not changed from yesterday," an unnamed source in contact with those around the German ex-pontiff told ANSA news agency,...

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Francis also is beset by problems at home and abroad and facing a sustained campaign of opposition from the conservative Catholic right. Bu...

The church had shown "deep, total and even cruel indifference for years," protecting itself rather than the victims of what was systemic ab...

The pope, whose opposition to gay marriage remains unchanged, said in a documentary premiered at the Rome Film Festival: "These are childre...

Pell, who accompanied Ridsdale to court in 1993 when he admitted widespread abuse, has repeatedly denied knowing about any of the offences.

Anti-corruption campaigns ruled 2013 with Aam Aadmi Party having assumed power in Delhi and India gearing up for 2014 general elections.

In a historic mass at St Patrick's cathedral Saturday, Pope Benedict XVI pledged his support for Roman Catholic clerics as they struggle to...

Making a plea for human rights, Pope Benedict XVI warned diplomats at the United Nations that international cooperation needed to solve urg...