sexual abuse

Elizabeth Smart’s remarks set off important debate about LDS sexuality doctrine and culture.

Statistics are one way to tell the story: In 1984, 87% of Irish Catholics went to weekly Mass. In 2011, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said 18% of Dublin Church members attend services. Images are another option: gaggles of green-bedecked youngsters and young adults line the St. Paddy’s Day parade route, but in Dublin’s cathedral youthful faces only speckle the crowd.

As American Catholics cite sex abuse response as top priority, questions from Argentina.

Could clergy itself be the problem?

Fifteen years, according to new evidence in Los Angeles Catholic abuse scandal.

Will it be seen as emblematic of anti-abortion activism?

The Church has been put on notice.

That’s one thing the Cardinal has no comment on.

If only the Church had responded so fervently to child abuse.

Philadelphia DA loses an important witness.