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A retired priest has been charged with indecent assault following a decade-long investigation into a residential school in Manitoba, Canadian police said on Friday.

POLICE have worked with their counterparts in Italy and the Netherlands to recover a centuries-old book which was illicitly taken from a collection…

Scottish police worked with Dutch and Italian officers on the return of the Book of Sermons.

Papal visits are typically filled with the joyful pageantry, excitement and emotion of a big event. But Pope Francis’ trip to Canada next month will likely have a rather dour feel. The pope will make the transatlantic trip in part to apologize in person for past abuses suffered by Indigenous…

The United States celebrates Father’s Day on the third Sunday of June. Many countries with a Catholic heritage, however, such as Portugal and Spain, have already honored fathers on March 19: the feast of St. Joseph, husband of Mary and patron saint of fathers.

Pope Francis has taken another step to reign in and regulate new religious groups in the Catholic Church

The Catholic Church’s official line on abortion, and even on any artificial birth control, is well known: Don’t do it.

Following the pope’s apology, can Indigenous residential school survivors forgive the Catholic Church?

To flip the famed line from “The Godfather Part III,” just when I think I might return to the Catholic Church, they pull me back out.

El Salvador has one of the world’s strictest abortion laws, banning the procedure in all circumstances including cases of rape, incest, fetal malformation and risk to a pregnant woman's life

A former priest and top aide to Santiago's archbishop was found guilty on Wednesday of repeated sexual abuse and rape, the result of 2018 scandal that ensnared multiple high-ranking members of the Chilean Catholic Church.