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Senator Montigny's bill would ban conversion therapy and require doctors, teachers, and other "mandated reporters" to report cases to the Department of Children and Families.

Hundreds of Pennsylvania priests are accused of sexuality abusing more than a thousand kids.

People in glass churches ought not to throw stones.

Any hint of shady dealings kills the entire Bernie shtick.

Protesters are vowing to demonstrate outside the Massachusetts prison where a notorious figure in the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal is being released after completing a 12-year sentence for raping a boy in the 1980s. Paul Shanley is expected to be released from the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater on Friday...

Pope Francis has agreed to establish a commission to study the possibility of women deacons in the Catholic Church.  The Pope made clear that he wanted the commission to look into the history of women deacons in the church. And just in case you weren't aware, there were women deacons in the ancient church...

The Vatican says Pope Francis has signed off on the miracle needed to make Mother Teresa a saint

High-ranking leaders of the Catholic church have sent talking points to U.S. dioceses in advance of the wide release of "Spotlight," a movie detailing the Boston Globe's 2002 investigation into the church's cover-up of clergy abuse. The Boston Globe reports the U ...

Is the Holy Eucharist immune from the flu? Some Catholic parishes are modifying Holy Communion Mass rituals in an effort to avoid spreading flu germs.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Gay rights groups are hailing what they call a "seismic shift" by the Catholic Church toward gays after bishops said homosexuals have gifts to offer the church and that their partnerships, while morally problematic, provide homosexuals with "precious" support.