Some victims of clergy sex abuse and their supporters are calling on federal and state entities to investigate sex abuse within the Catholic Church and root out abusers and anyone who has protected them

The university held a campus party with students and school staffers Tuesday for Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt.

Pope Francis will meet survivors of sexual abuse during his trip to Ireland Aug. 25-26.

The abuses these survivors suffered at the hands of priests were not crimes of passion, they said, but cold exploitations of control.

A research group aims to hold bishops accountable by compiling publicly available documents and reports on the child abuse crisis.

"We must never stand outside the church to judge her; we are the church. We all are responsible for the church, including when there are problems in the church."