The June 2 appointment of Father Dominique Spina gained widespread attention in the country after the French daily, La Dépêche du Midi, noted the priest's 1993 conviction for sexually abusing a ...

A year after the first revelations of sexual abuse by the French priest and homeless charity founder Abbé Pierre, twelve new ...

The Basilica of St. Sernin in Toulouse, France, pictured in a file photo, is a stop along the Way of St. James. French ...

Father Spina was convicted in 2006 by the Tarbes Court of Appeals for raping a 16-year-old student in 1993 while serving as ...

They died singing hymns and refusing to renounce Christ. The Blessed Martyrs of Orange gave their lives on an 1,800-year-old ...

The Basilica of Saint-Denis, Royal necropolis of the kings of France In Saint-Denis, in the north of Paris, the basilica of ...

A new report follows the money as it moves from reactionary advocacy groups and think tanks to groups waging war on women’s ...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed French Archbishop Thibault Verny, as the Vatican’s new abuse commissioner.The 59-year-old replaces US Cardinal Seán O’Malley, who has surpassed the age limit of 80 years. As ...

The Rev. Curtis Lambert — who has “strenuously denied” the allegations, per a letter from Cardinal Blase Cupich — was pulled ...

The report, resulting from a five-month inquiry into violence within the school system, proposes a series of measures aimed ...

French Archbishop Thibault Verny is the Vatican's new president of its Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors ...

Pope Leo on Saturday appointed a French archbishop as the new leader of the Vatican's commission on clergy sexual abuse, in ...