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Survivors of clergy sexual abuse reach $800m. settlement with New York Archdiocese

In addition to the $800 million settlement, the archdiocese agreed to release documents pertaining to sexual offenders in the Church.

Worshippers walk to a station during the Way of the Cross procession over the Brooklyn Bridge on April 03, 2026 in New York City.
 Cardinal McElroy at the pulpit

Pope Francis names Trump critic McElroy as Washington's new archbishop

Members of the Palestinian embassy to the Holy See give a keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian scarf, to Pope Francis during a Christmas ceremony at St Peter's Square at the Vatican, Dec. 7, 2024.

As improved relations quaver, a new guide aims to educate Catholics about antisemitism

 Flags of Palestine and Ireland flutter next to each other over the International Wall in support of Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 29, 2024.

Anti-Israel protestors disrupt religious service at Northern Irish cathedral


Catholic students asked to behave 'consistent with their biological sex'

The controversial new policy enforces students using their pronouns assigned at birth and their birth names and forbids same-sex relationships.

 AN EMPTY classroom in an east Jerusalem school, closed in protest at ‘Israeli censorship’ of PA-autorized school textbooks, last year.

Antisemitic Polish priest banned by a well-known Canadian parish

“We are grateful to the archbishop and his diocese for taking this principled and very important step to recognize that there are just some people in the world that you want to try and avoid."

A Catholic nun prays in front of a picture of Pope John Paul II in the Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem's Old City

Cardinal Stepinac – villain or saint?

As a result, the Vatican Secret Archives will open starting March 2, 2020.

Pope Francis holds weekly general audience at the Vatican, May 15, 2019.

Edgardo Mortara's mother's tears should not be forgotten

A new biopic on the life of a Jewish-born, forcibly baptized Father is in the works.

Coptic Christian Cross R370

Cardinal's death prompts sexual abuse activists to take stock of progress

"What the #MeToo movement shows is the public is now willing to assign blame. They are naming names and part of that is naming the legislators who are not willing to pass these laws."

Coffin of the former Archbishop of Boston Cardinal Bernard Law is seen before the funeral in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, December 21, 2017