John Rivera

The Vatican has rejected at least part of a proposed policy on child sexual abuse adopted by the U.S. Catholic bishops in June because it conflicts with the rights of...

Baltimore priests responded with sadness and anger yesterday after the release of a detailed account of Roman Catholic clergy accused of child sexual abuse over the past seven decades, expressing...

Calling the sexual abuse of children by clergy "the spiritual equivalent of murder," Cardinal William H. Keeler has disclosed that more than 80 priests have been accused of molesting minors...

Calling the last six months of the Roman Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal "a painful and purifying time," Cardinal William H. Keeler told more than 1,000 parish and parochial school...

PHILADELPHIA - While the U.S. bishops have adopted a get-tough "one-strike-and-you're- out" policy toward clergy who sexually abuse minors, the leaders of the Roman Catholic religious orders representing a third...

The nation's Catholic bishops named a Baltimore psychiatrist and seven other lay church members to a national board to oversee newly adopted policies for protecting children from sexual abuse by...

An inactive Baltimore priest has been charged with molesting a teen-age boy at the Catonsville parish he served in the 1970s, police said. The Rev. David G. Smith was charged...

A priest ousted from his Roman Catholic church in Connecticut because he was found to have sexually abused boys while working as a pastor in Baltimore was never charged here...

Cardinal William H. Keeler returned to Baltimore last night, a day after the nation's Catholic bishops approved a tough new sexual-abuse policy, pledging to reach out to victims who were...

DALLAS - The elected leader of the nation's Roman Catholic bishops told them yesterday that the church's leadership is largely to blame for the sexual abuse scandal roiling American parishes...