Members of the pope’s abuse watchdog body have said they find long wait times for victims who have lodged a complaint and a ...

Listen ROME – A new annual report from the Vatican’s safeguarding body calls for a more transparent and streamlined process for handling abuse cases in the Roman Curia, as part of a global ana ...

Parts of the Roman Catholic Church are still failing to ensure clerical sexual abuse is reported adequately, Pope Francis’ ...

Ten years after its establishment, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors has released a report compiled by a ...

Cardinals under the age of 80 elect the Pope when the Holy See becomes vacant; and are major administrators of church affairs, serving in one or more departments of the Roman Curia. Cardinals in ...

The reports came from more than 100 episcopal conferences and Eastern Catholic churches, 17 dicasteries of the Roman curia, religious superiors, associations and lay movements as well as a thousand ...

All of these eastern ritual churches come under the jurisdiction of the Pope through the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, one of the offices of the Roman Curia. The rites are administered ...

The statue, slightly taller than a human, according to the post, was found in Varna, the ancient city Odessa, and displayed a middle-aged man with a short beard, dressed in a Roman toga and ...

Before this, during the Roman period, the deceased were placed on their backs in wooden enclosures. Further analysis of the cemetery continues to be done, which specialists hope will lead to ...

"Gladiator II" starring Paul Mescal is a more action-leaning sequel that delivers on the big, wild fights, but not always on ...

French-Polish director Roman Polanski, who fled the United States decades ago after admitting to the statutory rape of a 13-year-old, will no longer face trial over an alleged assault of another ...