Thomas Cromwell’s final six months were a Greek tragedy of hubris and political venom, all presided over by a tyrannical king ...

(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A judge sentenced a 93-year-old former Catholic priest Wednesday to spend the rest of his life behind bars for raping a teenage boy decades ago.

Dhaka: The Bangladesh court has once again dismissed the plea to reschedule the bail hearing date for Hindu priest Chinmoy Krishna Das, citing procedural issues with the application. The court ...

LONDON (AP) — A former leader of the Church of England has resigned as a priest following allegations that he failed to properly handle the case of a priest accused of sexual misconduct.

More than 50 clergy — including 48 priests — in a Michigan diocese have been accused of sexual abuse dating back to the 1950s, according to a disturbing report by the state’s top prosecutor.

A priest who sexually assaulted a sleeping man on a train has been jailed for 16 months. Father Daniel Doherty, the former priest at St Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Falkirk, was seen putting ...

Timothy Biles was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault. A priest has been sentenced to six years in prison for sexually assaulting a boy in the 1960s. Timothy Biles, 89, of Sherborne ...

Fifteen or so armed men, who said they were from the Russian police and FSB spy agency, stormed into Bodyu’s home early on March ... have forced numerous other priests, pastors and imams into ...

Gawronska recalled the challenges that her mother faced as she advocated for his canonization beginning in the early 1930s. Gawronska read a line from a letter that Frassati wrote exactly 100 ...

A statement posted on its website said that the Reverend Thomas Nisbett Jr will be the priest-in-charge for St Peter’s Church in St George's and the Chapel of Ease in St David’s after Easter ...

It accuses 56 people: 48 priests, three religious brothers, "an apparent former religious brother" and four deacons. Most of the alleged misconduct took place in the 1970s and the 1980s.

A priest who sexually assaulted a sleeping man ... Sheriff Lugton said he took into account his remorse and early guilty plea in reducing the sentence from 24 months to 16 months and placed ...