Tara Isabella Burton

The internal politics informing the church’s reaction to the clerical sex abuse crisis.

Carlo Viganò, former papal nuncio, says Francis knew about McCarrick’s abuses and lifted sanctions against him anyway.

Almost two decades after the Boston Globe’s reporting, secrecy and bureaucracy have delayed justice.

Decades of child sex abuse scandals have eroded Irish trust in the Catholic Church.

A week after the Pennsylvania report, people are calling in new allegations of Catholic clerical sex abuse.

In an open letter, Francis writes that “we showed no care for the little ones.”

The pope’s revision to the Catechism calls capital punishment “inadmissible.”

Church leadership says “political action is not personal conduct.”