An agency that conducted 5,000 background checks for 450 churches said it found serious felonies in 80 cases and more than 600 people who had some type of criminal history that may have disqualified ...

Soon, being a parent won’t get you an automatic pass into your kid’s Catholic school as a volunteer coach, playground monitor or teacher’s helper. If you want to contribute as a Sunday school leader, ...

WASHINGTON – The Air Force's failure to transmit the criminal record of the Texas church shooter Devin Kelley to the FBI – which would likely have stopped the sale of a rifle used in Sunday’s massacre ...

Kwame Holman reports on the opening of the unprecedented meetings in Rome between the pope and U.S. cardinals regarding Catholic priests and the sexual abuse scandal. "The abuse which has caused this ...