PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A high-ranking church official accused of moving predator-priests to unwitting parishes took the stand in his own defense Wednesday, telling jurors in the groundbreaking clergy sex ...

H.R. 344, introduced by State Rep. Nate Davidson (D-Cumberland County), asks Congress to use its constitutional authority to ...

HARRISBURG — A landmark grand jury report identifies more than 300 “predator priests” in six of Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses, the state Supreme Court said Friday in ordering the findings ...

Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh said his diocese has changed. A Catholic bishop among those named in a grand jury report alleging widespread sexual abuse by hundreds of Pennsylvania priests pushed ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania grand jury says its investigation of clergy sexual abuse identified more than 1,000 child victims. The grand jury report released Tuesday says that number comes from ...

The Rev. Nelson Daniel Rupp was assigned to St. Augustine seminary for part of the time Robert Prevost was a student.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A Catholic priest who worked in Orlando churches for more than a decade faces sexual abuse accusations from sheriff’s investigators and a lawsuit that accuses him of grooming and then ...

Sexual abuse at the hands of clergy is something that many Pennsylvania Catholics had thought of as happening somewhere else. Now it's hitting home. From member station WESA in Pittsburgh, Virginia ...

William Lynch and his brother say they were abused more than 35 years ago. June 21, 2012— -- William Lynch dreamed of this day for more than 35 years, the day the priest who he said sexually ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV signaled commitment to continuing the fight against clergy sexual abuse by appointing France’s Bishop Thibault Verny to head the Vatican’s child protection advisory commission ...