Pope Francis made his first public plea for forgiveness on Friday for the “evil” committed by priests who molested children, using some of his strongest words yet on the Roman Catholic Church ...

By the one organization — the church — that parents believed they could trust to nurture and protect their children's souls. The depths of abuse and betrayal — the sheer evil — documented ...

(Associated Press) VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis said Friday he took personal responsibility for the "evil" of priests who raped and molested children, asking forgiveness from victims and saying ...

The Jesuit order has agreed to a tentative payout of $16 million to settle claims that one of its priests sexually abused nine Los Angeles children ... “one of the most evil priests that has ...

More than 150 Catholic priests and others associated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore sexually abused over 600 children and often ... most to imagine that such evil acts could have actually ...

An "evil monster" paedophile priest who ruined the lives of 10 children was locked up again - at the age of 96. Father John Murphy was jailed for three years in December 2017, for molesting four ...

VATICAN CITYVATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI told priests Sunday to safeguard children in their charge from evil and win the “absolute” trust of their flock, even as his own papacy is ...