I was so touched by the brief yet beautiful blessing of Pope Francis. He appeared in his wheelchair and declared “Buona ...

Massa traces this strain in American Catholicism back to what’s been called the “comic opera heresy” of a fellow Jesuit, ...

Survivors of church sexual abuse acknowledge Pope Francis took important steps, but say his successor must do more to tackle ...

Pope Francis commissioned an investigation, realized he was wrong, apologized to the victims he discredited, and got the ...

After a long period of declining health which saw an increasingly debilitated Francis struggling to hold onto life, it was the demonic visitation of US ...

Pope John Paul II, who led the church when the early evidence came to light, tended to view individual priests as the problem, paying less attention to crimes or cover-ups in the hierarchy.

Francis did create a sex abuse commission early on to advise the church on best practices and ... Francis to take even bolder action to hold the hierarchy accountable for covering up abuse.

While important steps had been taken to address the abuse scandals during his predecessor’s tenure, there was still much more the church needed ... large section of the hierarchy.