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.

Pope Francis will be spending a few precious hours at the Basilica of Knock while he is in Ireland this weekend.

You don’t get to claim Christ’s body without assuming the punishment it suffered.

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

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

Beginning in the mid-1990s, the church in Ireland was rocked by a series of very public revelations about sexual abuse and, particularly, about how the abuse and allegations of it were mishandled by senior church leaders.