Baltimore

A new national sex-abuse hotline will be created to report sexual assault within the Catholic church. U.S. Catholic Bishops voted Wednesday to create the hotline which will be run by an independent entity. The decision represents one of the church’s most tangible steps yet in confronting its sex-abuse crisis. “If you need to call the […]

The Catholic archdiocese in Baltimore published the names of 23 dead priests and religious brothers Wednesday who it says were credibly accused of child sex abuse after their deaths. This release marks a revision to an archdiocese policy that once prohibited the naming of priests and brothers who were no longer alive when they were […]