Catholic Church

A Louisiana grand jury has charged a now-91-year-old disgraced priest with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 1975.

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia settled a sexual assault case and agreed to pay $3.5 million.

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who claims he was sexually assaulted by a priest when he was 14 years old.

In 1992, Sinéad O’Connor destroyed a photo of Pope John Paul II on U.S. national television. While the pushback was swift, for survivors of clergy sex abuse O’Connor’s protest was prophetic, forecasting the global denomination’s public reckoning that was still to come.

Conservative sectors in the church are criticizing the appointment of Archbishop Victor Manuel Fernández to lead the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith over his 1995 book “Heal Me with Your Mouth: The Art of Kissing.”

Former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is not competent to stand trial on charges accusing him of sexually assaulting a teenage boy in Massachusetts decades ago, an expert for the prosecution says, raising doubts about the future of the criminal case against the 92-year-old. Prosecutors this week disclosed the findings of their expert to the judge, who will ultimately rule…

Pope Francis is expected to be released from the hospital “in the coming days,” as he recovers well and without complications from abdominal surgery last week, the Vatican said Wednesday.

Vincent DeLorenzo, 84, will likely get a year in jail when he is sentenced in June and will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

Eight Filipinos have been nailed to crosses to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a gory Good Friday tradition that is rejected by the Catholic church. The tradition draws huge crowds of devotees and tourists to the Philippines, an Asian bastion of Christianity. The real-life crucifixions in the rice-growing village of San Pedro Cutud resumed Friday after a three-year pause due...

More than 150 Catholic priests and others associated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore sexually abused more than 600 children over the past 80 years.

Families returned to Our Mother of Consolation School in Philadelphia’s Chestnut Hill neighborhood Thursday to hopefully retrieve students’ items from the building. NBC10’s Brian Sheehan has the details on the fire and talks to a young girl reunited with a beloved doll.

Let the green beer and fun flow. From McGillin’s Olde Ale House in Center City to Xfinity Live! in South Philadelphia, NBC10’s Matt DeLucia checks out the places celebrating a double dip of St. Patrick’s Day and the NCAA basketball tournament on this Friday.

St. Patrick’s Day coincides with the religious observance of Lent this year. But don’t worry — local bishops are granting Catholics the day off from their religious duties in order to celebrate.

Thousands of people gathered in Philadelphia for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday. Isabel Sanchez of Telemundo 62 and NBC10 has the highlights.

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent and its observance lasts for 40 days, excluding Sundays. Here’s what to know about the Christian tradition.

A hate crime investigation is underway after police arrested a suspect for vandalizing several Catholic churches across Southern New Jersey. NBC10’s Brian Sheehan reports.

Cardinal George Pell, a onetime financial adviser to Pope Francis who had sex abuse convictions overturned, has died. Pell died Tuesday after undergoing hip surgery at a Rome hospital. He was 81. He had been in Rome to attend the funeral last week of Pope Benedict XVI. Pell, an Australian, was once the third-highest ranked Catholic in the Vatican. Pope...

Pope Francis has revealed that shortly after being elected pontiff in 2013 he wrote a resignation letter in case medical problems impede him from carrying out his duties.

The retired bishop of Albany, New York, is asking Pope Francis to be removed from the priesthood. Emeritus Bishop Howard Hubbard announced the decision Friday in a statement.

An investigation by Maryland’s attorney general has identified 158 Roman Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Baltimore accused of sexually and physically abusing more than 600 victims over the past 80 years. That’s according to court records filed on Thursday. Attorney General Brian Frosh announced that his office has completed a 463-page report on the investigation, which began in 2019....