RELIGION

Pope Francis is vowing to provide justice to victims of clergy sexual abuse after an independent audit faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI for having botched four cases of abuse when he was archbishop of Munich, Germany.

A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany’s Munich diocese has faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of cases when he was archbishop in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Knights of Malta, an ancient Catholic order, are warning that the Vatican's proposals for reforming the order risk its internationally recognized status as a soverign state.

Pope Francis has issued a plea on behalf of prison inmates, saying they should never be deprived of hope and always have the opportunity to redeem themselves.

For many Jewish leaders, the hostage standoff in a Texas synagogue was all too familiar.

A White House spokeswoman says an armed British man who took four people hostage during a 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended in his death entered the United States without raising any red flags during multiple checks against law enforcement databases.

The Vatican press office says that Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra have both tested positive for the coronavirus.

A cold case team that combed through evidence for five years in a bid to unravel one of World War II’s enduring mysteries has reached what it calls the “most likely scenario” of who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family.

A new effort to preserve historic Black churches in the United States has received a $20 million donation that will go to help congregations.

The tight-knit congregation at a Texas synagogue where four people were held hostage by an armed captor during a 10-hour standoff over the weekend traces its roots back to a gathering organized over 20 years ago by a handful of families who were new to the area.

The rabbi of a Texas synagogue where a gunman took hostages during livestreamed services says he threw a chair at his captor before escaping with two others after an hourslong standoff.

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s eldest son has condemned the inaction of federal lawmakers on voting rights.

Biltmore United Methodist Church of Asheville, North Carolina, is for sale.

Thousands of miles away from the Tigray war a lawsuit between trustees and clergy over the language of services is tearing apart an Ethiopian church in Ohio.

A Bronx community is paying its final respects to loved ones, a week after a fire filled a high-rise apartment building with thick, suffocating smoke that killed 17 people, including eight children.

A man held people hostage for more than 10 hours at a Texas synagogue where he could be heard ranting in a livestream and demanding the release of a Pakistani neuroscientist who was convicted of trying to kill U.S. Army officers in Afghanistan.

Police in England say they have arrested two teenagers in their investigation into an armed British national holding four people hostage during a 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue.

Pope Francis has long lamented that he can’t walk around town unnoticed like he used to before becoming pope.

A federal court has again rejected a Louisiana pastor's lawsuit over Gov. John Bel Edwards' past COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings.

Pope Francis grew up listening to the opera on the radio, is a fan of Argentine tango and thinks Mozart “lifts you to God.”.

The Catholic Church in Rome is strongly condemning a funeral procession outside a local church in which the casket was draped in a Nazi flag and mourners gave the fascist salute.

The Serbian Orthodox Church says the Patriarch, Porfirije, has tested positive for COVID-19.

Pope Francis has taken a step to reorganize the Vatican’s powerful doctrine office.

Pope Francis is now speaking about getting the coronavirus vaccination as a “moral obligation.”.

Pope Francis has baptized 16 babies in the Sistine Chapel to resume a decades-old Vatican tradition.

For the first time in years, Víctor Escobar has stopped taking most of the medicines needed for his lung disease.

Orthodox Christians in Russia, Serbia and other countries are observing Christmas amid restrictions aimed at dampening the spread of the coronavirus.

Christians around the world have marked Epiphany with a series of celebrations.

Workers for an Ohio-based missionary organization say an unidentified person made a ransom payment that freed three of their kidnapped colleagues from a Haitian gang in early December.

The Catholic church has been the dominant religious force in Spain for centuries.

The remains of South African archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu have been interred during a private family service at Cape Town's Anglican cathedral.

Pope Francis has used his New Year's Day appearances to encourage people to focus on the good which unites them and to decry violence against women.

Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu has been remembered at his funeral for his Nobel Peace Prize-earning role in ending South Africa’s apartheid regime of racial oppression and for championing the rights of LGBTQ people.

A crowd surge at a popular Hindu shrine in Indian-controlled Kashmir has killed at least 12 people and injured 15 others on New Year’s Day.

The Catholic Church and the northern Italian city of Ferrara are making their peace with Antonio Vivaldi nearly 300 years after the city’s archbishop effectively canceled the staging of one of his operas.

Year after year, several thousand women in the U.S. carry an unintended pregnancy to term and then offer the baby for adoption.

African leaders are paying tribute to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu for his fearless campaign that helped end South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime.

Desmond Tutu is being remembered for his passionate advocacy on behalf of LQBTQ people as well as his fight for racial justice.

Evangelical pastors have become increasingly influential inside Argentine prisons, especially in Santa Fe province.

Desmond Tutu’s family members have gathered at his Cape Town home in preparation for his funeral this weekend as South Africans honored his life.

The U.S. Roman Catholic church faces a clergy shortage.

The first openly gay bishop in the U.S. Episcopal Church is remembering when the late Desmond Tutu stood up for him.

Twins are seen as both a blessing and a curse in some West African countries.

Pope Francis is seeking to encourage married couples.

Pope Francis has used his Christmas Day address to pray for an end to the coronavirus pandemic.

Pope Francis is celebrating Christmas Eve Mass before an estimated 2,000 people in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Amid the surge of coronavirus cases across the U.S., numerous churches have canceled in-person Christmas services.

From Bethlehem and Frankfurt to London and Boston, the surging coronavirus dampened Christmas Eve festivities for a second year.

During the holidays, some faith groups and congregations across the United States work to bring some Christmas cheer—and connection—to prisoners and their children.

Pope Francis has urged Vatican cardinals, bishops and bureaucrats to embrace humility this Christmas season.

Thursday on the "CBS Evening News," Scott Pelley sits down with five millennial Muslims to discuss what it's like being Muslim in America. One panelist explains why ISIS' actions go against the teachings of Islam.

Robber finds religion, turns himself in A robbery suspect in Louisiana has turned himself in for two crimes after religion turned him around. WAFB's Graham Ulkins reports.