Many are asking why McCarrick was allowed to ascend the hierarchical church ladder when some in church circles had reported questionable behavior to the Vatican.

The Catholic organization Opus Dei paid $977,000 in 2005 to settle a sexual misconduct complaint against a once prominent Washington, D.C.-area priest.

The new church unites the two formerly schismatic bodies.

The Wise Men came all that way to hear the good news. I’ll bet there are a lot of people in your life who would like to hear it too.

The Catholic Church has condemned the practice and questioned whether the new law is constitutional.

The case poses a new challenge to the Vatican, amid growing demands in overwhelmingly Catholic France for a reckoning with decades of sexual abuse by the clergy.