Polish-American lawyer Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term "genocide," wrote a text titled Soviet Genocide in Ukraine ...

As Leo’s past record of handling clergy sexual abuse cases comes under scrutiny, victims of the now-disgraced group are ...

Pope Leo XIV's record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, has this in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy ... who helped found the group Ending Clergy Abuse. To be clear, no one has accused the pope of any ...

Two members of the Church hierarchy — Cardinal Timothy Dolan ... Father Ferguson said the inclusion of Catholic clergy on the commission “is extremely welcomed by our Church,” adding ...

but of unifying a fractured American church where the church hierarchy, ordinary Catholics, an influential right-wing Catholic media ecosystem and Catholic power in Washington are often at odds.

clergy or layperson, was allowed three minutes of uninterrupted speech. “Every voice had equal value,” said Susan Pascoe, the business consultant, who is chair of Catholic Emergency Relief ...

When the US replaced Spain as the colonial ruler in 1898, enforcing a separation of church and state, the political influence of the Catholic clergy waned ... But the church hierarchy continued ...

Hodász singled out the Catholic hierarchy for resisting survivors ... “[Laypeople] are as much in denial as the clergy themselves.” Pető says he is not giving up his fight for a systematic ...

But an attorney representing survivors of clergy sex abuse is blasting the ... “These deceptive legal ploys by the church hierarchy are designed to protect their careers, reputations, secrets ...

Seitz of El Paso, who chairs the group’s migration committee, noted that foreign-born clergy are crucial to Catholic parishes in rural and isolated areas as well as in dioceses with large ...