A series of scandals will be looming large in the eyes of church leaders and Vatican watchers alike during a highly anticipated conference on child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday. M ...

"There are some priests and also bishops who have done it," the pontiff said in response to a journalist's question on the abuse of nuns, speaking on the return flight from his trip to the United Arab ...

Every year a Spanish village honors a saint by dropping a goat off the church tower. Casual observers might find this particularly odd, but cradle Catholics know how to take it in stride. Catholicism ...

A Mexico City exhibition of paintings portraying sexualized and queer Christian priests and nuns has elicited fervent complaints from religious groups and right-wing figures who have held protests at ...