A lawyer who downplayed a top cardinal’s sexual abuse of two children by saying it was merely a “plain vanilla sexual penetration” case says he misspoke and has apologized. The lawyer, Robert Richter, ...

Disgraced Cardinal George Pell has arrived in court to learn the outcome of his appeal against convictions for molesting two choirboys in a Melbourne cathedral. The convicted child abuser could walk ...

A Cardinal who once held the Vatican’s third-most-powerful position faces up to 50 years in prison after he was convicted of molesting two 13-year-old choirboys in the late 1990s in Australia, new ...

Pope Francis closed an unprecedented Vatican summit on clerical sex abuse by promising to protect children and help victims of what he called a plague of clerical sex abuse, but he offered few policy ...