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Indigenous leaders from Canada and survivors of the country’s notorious residential schools are meeting with Pope Francis in hopes of securing a papal apology for abuses committed against them by Catholic priests and school workers

Canadian indigenous peoples meet Pope Francis this week to ask him to apologise for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools where children were abused and their culture denied.

Archbishop William Nolan stressed the Catholic Church must ‘change our ways’ to ensure the abuse scandal is not repeated.

A German Catholic priest was sentenced to 12 years in prison for child sexual abuse, a German court said on Friday, the latest in a string of cases that have shaken the German Catholic Church.

Thursday’s event, titled "Building Bridges," was part of the Catholic Church’s ongoing synodal process and a culmination of hours of conversations over the last month between a larger group of 130 students — many with a wide range of life experiences and in different areas of study — from 58…

It has been 25 years since a Connecticut newspaper exposed one of the Catholic Church’s biggest sexual abuse scandals

Spain's Catholic Church sought to give more credence to an investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of minors, saying on Tuesday a law firm would coordinate and audit the effort, in a move a victims' group has already dismissed as a "smoke screen".

Thousands of Arizona Catholics recently learned they may have been improperly baptized with the wrong words

The Catholic Church says baptisms performed by a priest who served in Arizona for 16 years are now presumed to be invalid because he used incorrect wording on a subtle but key component of the sacrament