Denizens of Zophos

A Catholic priest was found guilty by a court in Chihuahua this week of the violation and sexual abuse of a minor.

A new lawsuit filed against the Diocese of Savannah claims the Diocese covered up allegations of child molestation more than 30 years ago.

Although reaffirming the principle that the seal of confession can never be violated, the Vatican has told Church leaders in Australia that victims of sexual abuse should be encouraged to report abuse to the proper authorities.

Readers share their stories of growing up in the Catholic church and of the culture that allowed the abuse to happen.

An Ontario woman has won her bid to sue the London Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church for a second time over the sexual abuse she suffered as a child at the hands of a priest.

The 86-year-old is now likely to die behind bars, having been given more jail time after admitting more than a dozen rapes and sexual assaults.

Is it a “second Ettal”? A former pupil of the Catholic Piusheim in Bavaria reported massive abuse in court – not the first allegation of this kind. 

The now-retired priest allegedly committed the abuse in 1976 when he was serving at the St. Patrick Parish in Gainesville.

The alarming reports of sexual abuse by Catholic priests of minors and vulnerable adults in most parts of the world is a shocking truth...

SALINA – The Diocese of Dodge City announced on February 8th that Bishop John Brungardt has been accused of sexual abuse of a minor, according to a media release from the Diocese of Salina.

The victim, who was five when he joined the children's home in Speyer, Germany, said he was raped around 1,000 times during his time at the home in the 1960s and 70s, alongside other boys.

As U.S. Catholics await the release of the Vatican's report on former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was laicized by Pope Francis for serial sexual abuse, a new podcast chronicles the scourge of clergy abuse that has plagued the Catholic Church for more than seven decades.

CATANIA, Italy (RNS) — Since the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis began, lay associations have been the Achilles’ heel of its efforts to protect children.

A lawsuit accuses a former principal at two Catholic high schools of sexually abusing a child while serving at a Camden County parish.

The Polish Catholic Church's most senior archbishop notified the Vatican on Saturday of a Polish bishop accused of shielding priests known to have sexually abused children.

Police have arrived at the NSW seminary where Cardinal George Pell is living amid reports he is facing fresh criminal investigations.