World & Nation
Former U.S. Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy nearly 50 years ago.
Sept. 3, 2021
Religion: Hundreds in Boston will join the church during a service tonight. Some believe that their commitment despite sex-abuse scandal is a triumph of faith.
March 30, 2002
Pope Francis has sent one of his top sex crimes investigators to Bolivia as the country confronts an escalating pedophilia scandal involving priests.
May 23, 2023
The unprecedented resignation and public apology of a Roman Catholic archbishop in Newfoundland in the wake of a major sex scandal has reinvigorated debate across North America over whether priests should be celibate and has intensified calls for greater lay powers in the governance of the church.
July 21, 1990
A landmark French report says there have been about 330,000 victims of child sex abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in France over the last 70 years.
Oct. 5, 2021
The weight of a priest shortage, shrinking collections and the clergy sex abuse scandal combined to force Boston’s archbishop to announce Tuesday that his Roman Catholic archdiocese will lose 65 parishes by year’s end.
May 26, 2004
Church: ‘Grievous’ acts by priests are decried; critics say remarks fall short. Mahony confirms some accused local clerics have been removed.
March 22, 2002
An FBI investigation into clerical sex abuse in New Orleans looks specifically at whether priests took children across state lines to molest them.
June 29, 2022
Awards
Sadistic nuns. Pedophile priests. Criminal coverups within the Roman Catholic Church.
Nov. 12, 2015
Opinion
To the editor: The hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church expressing “shame and sorrow” over sexual abuse by priests is similar to the expression of “thoughts and prayers” in response to mass killings.
Aug. 22, 2018