Catholic Church

Europe rights court rejects case seeking to blame Vatican for abuse

The European rights court says sexual abuses committed by Catholic priests for decades cannot be attributed to the Holy See.

Pope expresses 'shame' at French sex abuse scandal

Pope Francis spoke about the recent report that says some 330,000 French children were abused by clergy.

French report: Clergy, other church men abused 330,000 children for decades

France’s first major study of sexual abuse of children in Catholic Church estimates that some 216,000 children were abused by priests, and the rest by other church figures such as scout leaders or camp counselors during 1950-2020.

Paedophilia scandal: Thousands operated inside French Catholic Church

The independent commission in France investigating the scandal uncovered between 2,900 and 3,200 paedophile priests or other members of the church. The commission's report is due to be released on Tuesday.

San Marino votes to legalise abortion

Some 77.30 percent of voters backed the proposal to allow abortion up to 12 weeks of pregnancy and afterward only in the case of the mother's life being in danger or of grave malformation of the foetus.

Protesters topple statues of Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth in Canada

Many Canadian cities scrapped Canada Day events this year as anger grows over the discovery of unmarked graves at three residential schools in Canada for Indigenous children.

Explained: Canada’s 'cultural genocide' of Indigenous people

Most recently, the Indigenous community discovered 751 unmarked graves belonging to mostly children in Saskatchewan, unearthing another terrible evidence of Canadian persecution.

Ireland probe: Some 9,000 children died at Church-run homes in 1920-90s

Irish PM Micheal Martin says the country must "face up to the full truth of our past," as a long-awaited report recounted decades of harm done by church-run homes for unmarried women and their babies, where thousands of infants died.

US Boy Scouts to face more than 80,000 sexual abuse claims

Rocked by accusations of sexual abuse, BSA filed for bankruptcy in February in an effort to block settlement claims from hitting the organisation directly and instead funneled them to a compensation fund.

Is Pope Francis a left-leaning Catholic leader?

The spiritual leader of the Catholic world recently criticised capitalism, suggested he found the free market system inadequate when it comes to meeting basic human needs.

Vatican urges bishops to report sex abuse cases to police

The Vatican released guidelines for bishops and other senior officials on dealing with clerical child sex abuse claims, clarifying rules on tackling a decades-old scandal plaguing the church.

Australian inquiry found Pell should have reported child sex abuse

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found that Cardinal George Pell knew about abuses dating back to the 1970s and kept them hidden.