Catholic Church

Pope: Treatment of Indigenous children in Canada was genocide

Wrapping up his Canadian visit, Francis said he repeatedly condemned the system that severed family ties and attempted to impose new cultural beliefs as “catastrophic” to generations of Indigenous peoples.

Pope apologises for 'evil' against Canada's Indigenous people

"I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples," Pope Francis has told Indigenous leaders from the First Nations, Metis and Inuit people.

Pope arrives in Canada for 'penitential pilgrimage' over Indigenous abuse

Pope Francis began a fraught visit to Canada to apologise to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools, a key step in the Catholic Church’s efforts to reconcile with Native communities.

US Catholic diocese agrees to $87.5M deal to settle sex abuse suits

Details about what the roughly 300 victims have alleged happened to them in New Jersey Catholic were not included in the proposed settlement, according to an attorney for some 70 of the victims.

Portuguese Church sexual abuse commission fears many more victims

Almost 300 victims have come forward against Church officials, and investigators say that this number is just “the tip of the iceberg.”

Pope apologises to Canadian indigenous for abuses

Pope Francis hoped to visit Canada in late July to deliver the apology in person to survivors of the “deplorable” abuses they suffered in Canada’s Catholic-run residential schools.

Pope issues new Vatican constitution in long-awaited bureaucracy reform

The principles section of the new constitution says "any member of the faithful can head a dicastery (Curia department) or organism", making no distinction between lay men and lay women.

Canada's indigenous community finds more evidence of 'cultural genocide'

At least 54 more unmarked graves found at another one of the country’s indigenous schools.

Is Catholicism in Latin America set to become a minority faith?

Catholicism has dominated the region since the Europeans brought it through colonisation. Now, the Vatican looks set to lose a region which it ruled uncontested.

French Catholic Church will use its assets to compensate sex abuse victims

The church had already promised to set up a fund to start making payouts next year, which will now be bolstered by selling real estate.

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.