Bernard F Law

At St. John the Evangelist Church near downtown Indianapolis Wednesday, Catholics in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis witnessed the ordination of the first auxiliary bishop since 1933. More than 100 priests and 17 cardinals and bishops were on hand for the...

THE $60-MILLION settlement announced last week between 45 molestation victims and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is a brutal reminder that moral crisis cannot be cured through legal compromise. In those cases, and the hundreds more yet to be settled,...

Journalism and terrorism Re "A byline for Hamas?" Opinion, July 22 I would rather that people write Op-Ed articles than fire rockets or build illegal settlements. The protests of Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper are heartfelt, but their claim to moral...

At first glance, it seems difficult to imagine how Cardinal Roger M. Mahony can survive the pedophile scandal. Far from putting the matter to rest, the $660-million settlement that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay the victims of the...

Hundreds of sexual abuse claims filed against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles are not only legitimate but tragic, an attorney for Cardinal Roger M. Mahony said Thursday. "There are some that will just break your heart," said J. Michael...

Pope John Paul II, whose indomitable will and uncompromising belief in human dignity helped bring down communism in Eastern Europe and reshaped Christianity's relationship to Judaism, died today. He was 84. The Polish-born John Paul, indisputably the...

ST. LOUIS - A grand jury is investigating allegations of sexual abuse against 24 Catholic priests as part of a probe that began with the arrest of a defrocked clergyman in March, a prosecutor said. The state panel has been unable to pursue complaints...

Assuming a posture of contrition and humility, the leaders of the U.S. Roman Catholic church moved Thursday toward adopting toughened policies that would remove from ministry any priest who abuses a child, even for a single allegation from long ago. In a...

Despite a year of scandalous revelations involving the sexual abuse of children by priests, many Roman Catholics across the country are increasing their financial support of the church. Although Catholics express anger in national polls at the actions of...

BOSTON - A $10 million settlement between the Boston Archdiocese and 86 alleged victims of child-molesting priest John Geoghan won final approval yesterday, six months after the church backed out of a much costlier agreement. A $10 million check from the...

BOSTON - Cardinal Bernard Law said he promoted a now-indicted priest without looking at his personnel file, which included complaints of sexual abuse dating to 1966, according to transcripts of testimony released yesterday. As he has in the past, Law...

BOSTON - The number of sexual abuse victims in the Boston archdiocese over the past six decades "likely exceeds 1,000" molested by more than 250 clergy and other church workers, the attorney general of Massachusetts concluded in a scathing report...