Police have praised the bravery of a depraved predator's victims after he was handed a 15-year extended jail sentence. Bobby ...

Arizona Sen. Carine Werner sponsored and helped draft a bill that requires Valley schools report cases of sexual abuse. It comes after the murder ...

When Pope Francis took over in 2013, the Catholic Church was embroiled in a global scandal over child sex abuse by priests ...

Colin Waterfield, 79, was sentenced in 2017 for multiple rapes and sex assaults on eight children and an adult.

The first pope from the Americas was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Dec. 17, 1936. He was chosen ...

Francis was a deeply religious child in Buenos Aires. The first pontiff from Latin America tried to create a more welcoming ...

The Chicago archdiocese’s lawsuit is the first serious legal pushback against false clergy sexual abuse claims against the ...

As Roman Catholics around the world mourn the death of Pope Francis, who was hospitalized with a complex lung infection and other health complications before passing away, the tri-state area pays ...

Pope Francis has confronted the Catholic Church's child sex abuse scandal by sanctioning clergy and mandating reporting.

Parents are told that keeping kids safe online is their responsibility, but by itself, no amount of good parenting is enough ...