It is, perversely, a mark of Catholicism’s success that it is being targeted in Africa

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The black avalanche of sex-abuse stories can become so incessant that we want to forget about it. But we need

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Last week’s meeting of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in Baltimore was almost derailed after the Vatican issued

As the abuse crisis deepens and Church officials struggle to reassure laity that they are taking their grievances seriously, some

It is cold and gloomy when I ask one of the Syriac Orthodox youths in the Swedish city of Södertälje

One of Europe’s strangest Church-state relationships may soon come to an end if a Catholic bishop is forced to abdicate