The second, and even more significant, move toward reverence was turning ad orientem, that is, the priest at the altar facing ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the death of Friedrich Myconius, the creation of the Catholic ...

McCarrick’s downfall came in the wake of stunning allegations that first became public in 2018 that he had abused a teen 50 ...

The former cardinal and archbishop deftly managed to fend off abuse accusations for decades — and never publicly repented ...

Jay Sefton co-wrote and performed "Unreconciled," the story of how he played Jesus in an eighth-grade Catholic school passion ...

Theodore McCarrick — once one of the Catholic Church's most influential figures in the United States who was later defrocked following a Vatican investigation that found he had abused both adults and ...

The first cardinal to be defrocked by the Pope over allegations of sexual abuse has died in the United States, a senior US churchman said Friday.

Theodore E. McCarrick — the former archbishop of Washington and the highest American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church to ...

An Oklahoma man has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting a Catholic priest at a church rectory in ...

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati encompasses 450,000 Catholics across 19 southwest Ohio counties and more than 200 parishes.

Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities since 1959. Officials say the agreement still needs ...

Theodore McCarrick – the former archbishop of Washington who resigned as a cardinal and was later dismissed from the ...