Wheelchair ramps help disabled persons enter into a church building. There is a need for spiritual ramps to help the church to go in the other direction.

His attorney said it's the first time a U.S. bishop has been sued individually for coercion.

“It is the ugly face of clericalism that unfortunately still has too much influence in our church,” Archbishop Gregory said.

The promotion of Monsignor John Kennedy to head of the discipline section of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith was the second abuse-related appointment in recent days.

The battle on the tiny tropical U.S. territory pits the Neocatechumenal Way lay group against critics on a majority Catholic island that was colonized by Spanish missionaries in the 17th century.

“Church leaders in Australia took a long time to sit down with victims. Some still don’t.”