Pope Francis declared an “all-out battle” against sexual abuse on Sunday as he concluded a high-stakes summit that Catholic bishops hailed as a turning point for the church, even as victims lamented that little had actually been accomplished during the unprecedented four-day meeting. In a closing address in the Apostolic Palace’s opulently frescoed Sala Regia, […]

The first gathering of the nation’s Catholic bishops since this summer’s wave of anger and recrimination at the hierarchy’s handling of clergy sex-abuse opened Monday with a stunning announcement: The prelates would not take a promised vote on a series of new accountability measures– and it was the Vatican that ordered them to hold off. […]

Bishop Secular decided to invite a local Catholic priest who goes to the same gym as him to preach at his church, and was quiet surprised…