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IMAGE: CNS/Carol Glatz By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When a child-protection advocate resigned from a papal advisory board in early March, she did so because of growing frustration with persistent resistance and a “toxic” sense of superiority...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Francis has condemned clerical sex abuse as an “absolute monstrosity” and asked victims and their families for forgiveness on behalf of the Catholic Church. In an unusual move, the pontiff’s comments were published as a preface...

Despite headlines about a powerful “gay lobby” within the Vatican, and a new Pope promising reform, the Catholic Church’s gay cardinals, monks, and other clergy inhabit a hidden netherworld. In Rome, the author learns how they navigate...

By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When facing criticism, a sense of humor and the grace to remain at peace are always the best response, Pope Francis said in an interview with Germany's Die Zeit newspaper. In the interview, published March...

Over these last weeks, it's been a constant point here that – as the head of the Gang of Eight subsequently put it – the Synod of Bishops "will be transformed"... and that said evolution could prove the linchpin of the Franciscan reform of...