Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch made controversial comments during a radio interview about the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal. Koch claimed the scandal was "mostly homosexual issues, not pedophilia" and that the media treated the Church unfairly. The …

Pope Leo XIV has already appointed the new president of the Vatican’s anti-abuse commission. His name is Thibault Verny and he is a French bishop who has been part of this body since 2022. In fact, he can be seen at some of the meetings with Pope Francis. …

Is it possible that the next Pope could be a former Bishop of Fall River? In a word, the answer is:  yes. Now retired, Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley has been discussed as a candidate for pope in the past. Specifically, O'Malley’s name came up …

Pope Francis, a transformative figure who revitalized the hopes of millions of Catholics after decades of scandal, stagnation and increasing social irrelevancy for the global church, died on April 21 after a prolonged battle with double pneumonia, for …

Their spiritual gurus were Pell and US Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, who once famously compared the Church under Francis to "a ship without a rudder". In 2016 and in 2023, Burke and a handful of other cardinals lodged public challenges known as …

Cardinal Sean O'Malley delivered a lecture, part of the Bergoglio Lecture Series, at Sacred Heart University on Feb. 26 to an overflow crowd of students and faculty. Given his close collaboration with Pope Francis in the 12 years of this papacy — …

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo on Saturday appointed a French archbishop as the new leader of the Vatican's commission on clergy sexual abuse, in the U.S. pontiff's first public move to confront an issue that has damaged the global Church's …

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston has a new leader for the first time in over 20 years. Richard Henning was installed as archbishop Thursday afternoon at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross. He's replacing Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who …

By Victoria D Updated on: November 1, 2024 / 6:16 AM EDT / CBS Boston New archbishop installed for Archdiocese of Boston during special Mass New archbishop installed for Archdiocese of Boston during special Mass 01:04 BOSTON - The Archdiocese of …

Cynthia will never forget January 2002. At the time, she was a student at Boston College, the Jesuit university in the archdiocese. Every day on her way to class, she passed by the residence of Cardinal Bernard Law, then-Archbishop of Boston, who died in …