Saying that the Catholic Church did not protect children is just as wrong. It was the bishops. It was the hierarchy. We should not blame the people of God for the sins of the hierarchy.

Before the vote, the all-male U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops ... Every time the male hierarchy of the church chooses to defend the power of the institution over the children, or the sick ...

It is time to face the horrible truth: The Catholic ... of children. It chronicles in detail how the Catholic hierarchy from the diocese to the Vatican worked not only mitigate the church's ...

Any male baptized in the Roman Catholic church is eligible to serve as pope ... including support for "innocent Palestinian women and children" in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

A government-sponsored report said on Wednesday the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Ireland continued to conceal the sexual abuse of children by priests even after it introduced rules in the ...

There are numerous signs that the Catholic Church is failing in Western ... been problematic for couples and their children. Liberals also blame the hierarchy for the vocation crisis because ...

(Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/Getty Images) Everyone with open eyes can now see that the hierarchy of the Catholic ... The church knew about the abuse of children — as it was happening.

A report found that the Archdiocese of Baltimore covered up the abuse of more than 600 children ... or cover-up of that abuse by the Catholic Church hierarchy," the attorney general's report ...

By Ruth Graham Clergy members across the Archdiocese of Baltimore abused hundreds of children and teenagers over the course of six decades, abetted by a church hierarchy that systematically failed ...