Pope Francis prepares to visit Ireland, a country rocked by decades of revelations about sexual abuse of children in its churches, the physical torture of youngsters in its schools and the humiliation of women in its workhouses.

Avery Dulles' thousands of students remember him for the clarity of what he taught and wrote as a theologian and teacher. But he was more than that...

Archbishop John C. Nienstedt has "stepped aside from his responsibilities" at the Napa Institute, the Irvine, California-based organization announced Aug. 15.

What do you do when a priest you've known for years turns out to have abused kids? What about two priests?

In a wide-ranging news conference that touched on clerical sex abuse, the role of women in the church and LGBT issues, Cardinal Kevin Farrell said the fundamental message of the Gospel was the same for all of God's creation.

A global synod on priests could help the church to end the "terrible" scandals of clerical child abuse, an English bishop told Pope Francis.