Across the country, Catholic dioceses have found ways to trim or stall attorney general investigations into clergy sexual abuse and alleged cover-ups. In New Jersey, the state Supreme Court will ...

A survivor of sexual abuse by clergy in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Sefton advocated for a bill stalled in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives that would allow a “lookback window ...

Added to this are the unique difficulties of the tiny, rural church: elderly congregations, few in number; crumbling, unheated churches; rapidly rising costs; and one weary priest, staggering from ...