“Without accountability for the past there will be no healing and no trust for the future,” Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said.

A study reports that Latinos who have left the church since 1990 have shifted toward secularism as they become more Americanized.

Ruptures appeared in what had been a unified front among national Catholic leaders.

A priest was found to have violated a condition of his reassignment by continuing to work with youth.

The bishops said the proposals could harm public safety and separate families.

The Archdiocese of Chicago is seeking the canonization of the Rev. Augustine Tolton, the first U.S. priest of African descent.