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 steps of Corpus Christi Church in Round Lake, NY, where Stephen Mittler said he first met a priest who sexually abused him as a child. Mittler met with Albany Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger ...

Baltimore, Md., Nov 15, 2023 / 13:15 pm. U.S. bishops are hoping for further guidance from the Vatican before they formulate concrete plans to prepare for the final stage of the Synod on ...

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 ...