[During the Oct. 4-29 Synod of Bishops on Synodality, Crux editor John Allen will offer regular analysis under the heading of the “Synod Files.”] ROME – Two dramas of governance are playing out ...

LOS ANGELES » A lawsuit brought by a 20-year-old man who was molested by a Boy Scout leader in 2007 could force the organization to reveal 16 years’ worth of "perversion" files documenting sex abuse ...

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — An independent investigative firm is reviewing the Diocese of Charlotte’s priest personnel files as part of the diocese’s effort to release the names of all clergy credibly ...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – A new association of abuse survivors in Bolivia, created in the wake of revelations last May of more than 80 cases of abuse perpetrated by a Jesuit priest over four decades, has ...

In this Nov. 22, 2009 file photo, Bishop Thomas Tobin speaks to a reporter in Riverside, Rhode Island. (Credit: Josh Reynolds/AP.) Listen PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — Rhode Island’s attorney general ...

Pope Paul VI stands at the window of his private studio in the Vatican Palace in 1965. (Credit: Gianni Foggia/Associated Press.) Listen ROME – Leaders probably ought to be judged not only by the ...

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — Rhode Island’s Roman Catholic diocese is challenging a lawsuit filed after a state law gave sex abuse victims more time to sue their abusers or the institutions they worked ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Employees at the Crux Fermentation Project brewpub in Bend say they want to have a say in decisions that affect them. A petition was filed recently, seeking to unionize about 20 ...