The Rev. Carol Howard Merritt says that the image of a God who suffers with us can play a role in helping people recover.

A Vatican priest working in the Holy See's embassy in Washington has been recalled after U.S. officials flagged possible violations of child pornography laws.

Brother Angel Duples, the general director of an elite school founded by the Marist Brothers in Argentina, has admitted he sexually abused a student 38 years ago.

The complaints detail alleged attacks from 1955 through 1994 and claim some religious leaders knew of the exploitation and ignored it. 

Silent but defiant, Cardinal George Pell made his first court appearance in Australia on Wednesday.