Catholic religious orders from around the world apologized Tuesday for having failed to respond when their priests raped children, acknowledging that their family-like communities blinded them to ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic religious order. Prevost, 69, who chose the name Pope Leo XIV, was formerly the ...

Antonsen and his wife were lifelong churchgoers who sent their children to Sunday school and counted themselves as members of a parish in the archdiocese. Antonsen and his wife were lifelong ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first pope who belongs to the Order of Saint Augustine, whose principles, priests say, offer a window into what type of pontiff Leo may be. Augustinians follow spiritual ideals ...

The Taoiseach has vowed to pursue a “detailed examination” of how the state will make religious orders and institutions contribute towards compensating victims of historical sex abuse. Micheal Martin ...

When Larry Antonsen decided to report a priest who sexually abused him during high school, he believed the Archdiocese of Chicago was the right place to go. Victims of Abuse by Religious Order Priests ...

VATICAN CITY — Catholic religious orders from around the world apologized Tuesday for having failed to respond when their priests raped children, acknowledging that their family-like communities ...

For members of religious orders, obedience is "an act of love" and a powerful witness to the world of how gestures of selflessness are needed to build true community, Pope Leo said. "Obedience, in its ...

Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori looks on as Pallottine Father Frank Donio, executive director of the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, speaks at a July 22, 2025, Mass during the ...