Antonio Masiello/Getty Images His health crisis has raised public speculation of him resigning as leader of the Catholic Church. Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin has said this is unfounded.

The broader Catholic Church has also been blighted by huge payouts ... going altogether in the wake of the child sexual abuse crisis. A third also said they had stopped donating financially ...

(Kipsang Joseph, Standard) The Covid-19 pandemic has presented the churches with a crisis of monumental scale and will force radical shifts in the Christian society, a report by a religious ...

The Catholic Church in Germany has been shaken by a barrage ... to take responsibility for the “catastrophe” of the abuse crisis. ”Continue as you propose (in your pastoral work) but as ...