WASHINGTON -- Teresa Kettelkamp anticipates that over the next few years every article in the U.S. bishops' 2002 "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People" will come to be viewed as ...

(RNS) — After months of allegations that it lacks a credible process for disciplining its bishops, the Episcopal Church is taking steps to make it simpler to report misconduct, Presiding Bishop ...

As bishops gather, prosecutors step up scrutiny of church. Juliet Linderman, ... For decades, leaders of the Roman Catholic Church were largely left to police their own.

But victims, church watchdogs and bishops themselves warned that serious work remains if the church is to fully restore its credibility. An audit commissioned by the U.S. Bishops: 90% compliance ...

The USCCB can take this a step further by requiring that bishops bring regular Catholics into the investigative process. Let us hold bishops accountable. The U.S. church already has a mechanism ...

In July, Pope Francis removed U.S. church leader Theodore McCarrick as a cardinal after church investigators said an allegation that he groped a teenage altar boy in the 1970s was credible.

After months of allegations that it lacks a credible process for disciplining its bishops, the Episcopal Church is taking steps to make it simpler to report misconduct, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry ...