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December 03, 2019

Dutch police arrest 8 suspects in gang rape investigation

Dutch police have arrested eight men suspected of involvement in the gang rapes of at least three teenage girls. Police say ...

December 03, 2019

Lawsuit: Ex-Cardinal McCarrick abused boy in Newark in 1990s

Former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick abused a teenage boy in the 1990s when he was leader of the Archdiocese of ...

December 02, 2019

Italy expels 2 suspected extremists from Bangladesh, Morocco

Italy’s interior ministry says two suspected extremists from Bangladesh and Morocco, including an imam who allegedly beat ...

December 02, 2019

Olympic judo champ gets 5 years for sexual assault of pupils

Two-time Olympic judo champion Peter Seisenbacher was sentenced to five years in prison on Monday for sexually assaulting two ...

December 02, 2019

Pope sends aide to Greek island to bring back 33 migrants

The Vatican says Pope Francis has dispatched a close aide to the Greek island of Lesbos to bring back 33 asylum-seekers to ...

December 02, 2019

Pope sends aide to Greek island to bring back 33 migrants

The Vatican says Pope Francis has dispatched a close aide to the Greek island of Lesbos to bring back 33 asylum-seekers to ...

November 28, 2019

French cardinal’s career at stake in sex abuse case

A French cardinal said Thursday he did not understand why he was found guilty of covering up sexual abuse of children, ...

November 28, 2019

Dutch prosecutors charge isolated farm father with sex abuse

A Dutch father accused of holding six of his children against their will on an isolated farm for nine years is now also ...

November 27, 2019

Correction: Reckoning-Where Are They Now story

In a story sent Oct. 4 and 5 about clergy members that the Roman Catholic Church considers credibly accused of child sexual ...

November 27, 2019

Argentine bishop appears at court hearing on abuse charges

An Argentine bishop close to Pope Francis appeared voluntarily for a court hearing Wednesday ahead of a trial on charges of ...

November 27, 2019

Argentine victims hope priests’ sentences send pope message

The Argentine victims of two priests sentenced to more than 40 years in prison for sexually abusing deaf children at a ...

November 26, 2019

Man pleads guilty to making false bomb threats to schools

Federal prosecutors say a 21-year-old man has pleaded guilty to sending false shooting and bomb threats to schools in the U.S

November 25, 2019

Priests guilty of abusing deaf children at Argentine school

Two priests were found guilty on Monday of sexually abusing deaf children at a Catholic-run school in Argentina and sentenced ...

November 25, 2019

Austrian Olympic judo champ denies sexual assault of pupils

Two-time Olympic judo champion Peter Seisenbacher of Austria has denied the alleged sexual assault of two young girls he was ...

November 23, 2019

Vatican charity knew in 2017 of Africa sex abuse concerns

The Vatican’s Caritas Internationalis charity says it learned in 2017 of pedophilia concerns involving its Central African ...

November 22, 2019

Bosnian govt fires care home overseers over abuse claims

The government of one of Bosnia’s two autonomous parts on Friday fired members of the oversight team of a public care home, ...

November 22, 2019

AP: Catholic boards hailed as fix for sex abuse often fail

Facing thousands of cases of clergy sex abuse, U.S. Catholic leaders addressed their greatest crisis in the modern era with ...

November 21, 2019

Pennsylvanians to get more time on sex abuse charges, suits

The state where a grand jury’s groundbreaking report set off a new wave of reckoning over sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic ...