No appeal for 'abuse cash' priest
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A priest who financed the grooming of a child for sex loses his bid to appeal against his sentence.
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday, saying it did not have the money to cover lawsuits filed by alleged victims of clergy abuse.
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Appeal court judges reject compensation claims for alleged abuse from former Nazareth House residents.
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The top Vatican cardinal in charge of relations with Jews on Thursday denied a new prayer for their conversion was offensive and said Catholics had the right to pray as they wish.
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The Archdiocese of Newark has agreed to pay &#36;1.1 million to nine people who sued the diocese over alleged sexual abuse by priests. The settlement, announced Friday, carries no admission of wrongdoing on the part of the archdiocese or any priest.
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A Roman Catholic priest is found not guilty of committing gross indecency with a seven-year-old girl.
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Valencia will not appeal against the punishment handed out by UEFA to midfielder Miguel Angel Angulo or the fine imposed on the club for incidents during the Champions League defeat to Werder Bremen on December 7.
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Cardinal Norberto Rivera on Sunday urged a Mexican priest charged with raping and molesting children to turn himself in but denied accusations that he helped protect the fugitive.
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The BBC understands that no-one is to face charges after the 16-month UK cash-for-honours investigation.
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UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith on Friday denied media reports that he ordered investigators to conceal payments from an international anti-bribery watchdog agency.
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A priest admits he is the clergyman behind a sex abuse case in which a five figure payout was made.
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Catholic MPs who vote in favour of abortion should not ask for communion, the Archbishop of Cardiff says.
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A clergyman liaising with three suicide victims' families says there is no evidence they made a pact.
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NEW YORK - The city is showing no mercy to a priest who got a $115 ticket for parking in an ambulance zone while ministering to an ailing hospital patient.  Two months after ticketing the Rev. Cletus Forson of St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Brooklyn, the city has thrown out his appeal.
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A former Irish priest famous for stunts  that disrupted the marathon at the Athens Olympics and  Britain's Grand Prix denied charges on Wednesday of indecency  with a schoolgirl.
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The Roman Catholic archbishop of St.  Louis has issued an order denying the sacraments to leaders of  a rebellious parish in a dispute over control of the parish and  its millions of dollars in assets.
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The only man allowed to preach to Pope Benedict on Friday told the Pontiff he should call a worldwide day of fasting and penitence to ask forgiveness for the Roman Catholic Church's priestly sexual abuse scandals.