Austrian Bishop Quits After Sex Scandal -- Newspaper
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Austrian bishop Kurt Krenn has resigned,  apparently at the Pope's request, after a sex and child  pornography scandal in his diocese rocked the Roman Catholic  church in the Alpine nation.
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Croatian Foreign Minister Miomir Zuzul quits, despite denying links to corruption scandals.
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A child abuse case against a former US bishop is dropped, hours after he was charged.
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The boss of Australian packaging company Amcor quits his post amid a growing scandal over allegations of price-fixing.
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Pope Benedict on Saturday named Kazimierz Nycz, a bishop with a spotless record, as archbishop of Warsaw to replace a prelate who resigned in disgrace after admitting he spied for the communist police.
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US Catholic bishops, dealing with a pervasive priest sexual abuse scandal, on Monday elected as their new president Bishop William Skylstad of Spokane, Washington, whose diocese faces dozens of lawsuits from alleged victims.
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VIENNA -- Pope John Paul II officially named yesterday a prelate who investigated a child pornography scandal at a seminary to replace the bishop who resigned in the case, which rocked Austria's Roman Catholic Church and triggered an exodus of embittered believers.
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A district attorney who's considered the state's most powerful prosecutor resigned Friday under the weight of a scandal involving the release of dozens of pornographic, racist and political e-mails on his office computer.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe - A Zimbabwean archbishop who was an outspoken critic of President Robert Mugabe before becoming embroiled in a sex scandal said yesterday he has resigned, but vowed to continue championing his countrymen facing political and economic crises.
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The Catholic Church in Austria is investigating a  priest amid allegations he sexually abused children.
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The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland said Tuesday he will quit the human rights organisation Amnesty International in protest of its change of policy on abortion.
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ROME -- Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, the provocative and colorful African prelate known for exorcisms, mass healing ceremonies, and temporarily breaking with the church to marry a Korean acupuncturist, was excommunicated yesterday by the Vatican.
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A former top aide to a disgraced bishop in the Phoenix diocese was placed on administrative leave Wednesday following allegations of sexual improprieties.
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Bishop Ilkka Kantola of Turku, Finland, has tendered his resignation, saying he no longer had the credibility to take care of his duties, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland announced on Tuesday.
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A new Roman Catholic archbishop has been named in Warsaw, Poland, to replace Stanislaw Wielgus, who resigned after admitting to ties with the secret police.Comment
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Politics: 8 October 2004, Friday. Bulgaria's former Ambassador in Germany, who was recalled in the wake of a drink-and-drive scandal, has submitted his resignation.
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"I am resigning because between the love of my family and that of power, I choose the former."  Italy's justice minister offered his resignation Wednesday after the start of a corruption investigation involving his wife, but Premier Romano Prodi quickly rejected it. via The Oregonian