For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

Greek and Roman religion venerated one plurality of gods, heroesbut also personifications of abstract concepts. The ancient ...

WHILE many good and dedicated bishops and priests in the Philippines and elsewhere are examining their conscience about their responsibility to bring pedophile clergymen to justice, many more are not.

But Orthodox priests Denis Popovich, 27, and Nikita Ivankovich, 28, were nabbed by Putin’s FSB ­security service. They appeared to confess in an FSB video, in which Popovich said ...

Gerald Ridsdale has died in a Melbourne prison, with a lawyer who fought for his victim-survivors saying the impact of the pedophile priest’s crimes “cannot be fathomed”. Several sources ...

ROME, Italy — Pope Francis remains in the hospital this week, with a respiratory tract infection that doctors are describing as a "complex clinical situation." Despite this, the pontiff has kept ...

Gerald Ridsdale, who was convicted of abusing more than 70 children over three decades as a parish priest in Victoria’s west, died shortly before 10am on Tuesday. The 90-year-old was at the ...

The Archdiocese of Chicago has removed a priest from ministry following allegations that he sexually abused a minor several decades ago. In two letters — one to parishioners of Sts.

A Roman Catholic priest was killed inside a church in conflict-torn Myanmar by about a dozen anti-junta rebels. Reverend Donald Martin Ye Naing Win, 44, was attacked on 14 February with a knife by ...

YANGON – A Roman Catholic priest was knifed to death in his church in Myanmar by members of an anti-junta rebel group, an official and the head of the country’s bishops’ conference has said.

Gerald Ridsdale, who abused at least 72 children while serving as a Catholic priest, has died aged 90. Ridsdale's offending was central to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to ...