Religion

A Roman Catholic bishop named by Pope Francis to investigate the church’s response to clergy sexual abuse has himself been accused of sexually abusing a child.

His revolutionary fervor diminished by the years that have also turned his dark brown hair white, one of the Iranian student leaders of the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover says he now regrets the seizure of the diplomatic compound and the 444-day hostage crisis that followed.

A proposed Trump administration rule would allow faith-based foster care and adoption agencies to continue getting taxpayer funding even if they exclude LGBTQ families from their services.

Catholic bishops from across the Amazon called Saturday for the ordination of married men as priests to address the clergy shortage in the region, an historic proposal that would upend centuries of Roman Catholic tradition.

Nearly 1,700 priests and other clergy members that the Roman Catholic Church considers credibly accused of child sexual abuse are living under the radar with little to no oversight from religious authorities or law enforcement, decades after the first wave of the church abuse scandal roiled U.S. dioceses, an Associated Press investigation has found.

The Diocese of Allentown says an 87-year-old priest recently said he sexually abused a minor in the 1980s.

When post offices close Monday, the last victim compensation funds at Pennsylvania's Roman Catholic dioceses will also close, hours before lawmakers plunge back into a years-old fight over whether to let long-ago victims of child sexual abuse sue perpetrators and institutions that may have covered it up. 

As Pittsburgh prepares to commemorate last year's deadly shooting at a synagogue, Jewish leaders say returning to the synagogue remains a priority.

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has found one of its priests unsuitable for ministry based on a substantiated child sex abuse allegation, according to church officials.

The anxiety of one mass shooting after another has led some churches to start training and arming their worshippers with guns

An attorney for childhood victims alleging sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy says he has turned up the names of 12 New Jersey priests who were not previously disclosed on lists the church released.