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

Often, we have a tendency to privilege emotional moments over the more intellectual ones in our spiritual life.

Most people just don’t know that their pondering about life, about what really matters, is called theology.

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."