Four priests and two nuns in the Regensburg diocese are under investigation for sexual abuse allegations, the diocese said Monday, as a wider picture began to emerge of incidents decades ago in the pope's native Bavaria. Diocese spokesman Clemens Neck said that since allegations first surfaced ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - The Vatican has to take cases of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy more seriously, the abbot of a Swiss monastery at the center of an abuse scandal told a Swiss Sunday paper. "I'm afraid that the Church leadership in Rome is not taking the situation seriously enough," Martin Werlen said in an interview in SonntagsBlick. "Our credibility ...

Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday urged Catholics to refrain from judging sinners a day after he rebuked Irish bishops for their handling of a half-century of sexual abuse of minors by clergy. While the pope made no mention of the Vatican's widely criticized policy of ...

Pope Benedict XVI apologised for Irish priests' sexual abuse of children in a pastoral letter, but victims said it did not go far enough in addressing the growing scandal. The letter, released on Saturday, came as long-running sex abuse was coming to light in several other countries, including the pope's native Germany. "Like yourselves, I have been deeply disturbed ...