sexual abuse by clergy

By EDNA TARIGAN, MARIAM FAM and DAVID CRARY - Associated Press YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — On the outskirts of Yogyakarta, an Indonesian city that’s…

By BARRY HATTON - Associated Press LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The head of a lay committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic…

By BOBBY ROSS Jr. - Associated Press FARMERSVILLE, Texas (AP) — On the first Saturday of fall, a sweating Bart Barber trekked across a weedy pasture in…

By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ - Associated Press GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — Their spiritual leader is behind bars in California after pleading guilty to…

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press ROME (AP) — Abel Ferrara, whose gritty New York exploitation films of the 1980s and 1990s delved into the soulless…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS - Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana on Friday became the first state in the nation to approve abortion…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS - Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana on Friday became the first state in the nation to approve abortion…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS - Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s Legislature became the first in the nation Friday to pass new…

By ARLEIGH RODGERS - Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana House on Friday voted for a ban on nearly all abortions in the…

When Pope Francis apologizes to Indigenous groups on Canadian soil this week, he will make another effort toward healing harms inflicted at church-run residential schools —…