A disgraced US cardinal accused of covering up a clerical child sex abuse scandal was chosen to help seal Pope Francis’ ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s third-highest-ranking official, must stand trial on several charges of sexual abuse, an Australian court ruled Tuesday, promising to prolong ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a prominent US cardinal who is accused of sexually abusing a teenager nearly five decades ago, the Vatican said Saturday. Theodore McCarrick ...

A key figure of the child sexual abuse scandal that marred the Catholic Church in Boston has died. Cardinal Bernard Law, who resigned in disgrace as archbishop in 2002 amid the investigation into the ...