Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. File. In this photo made from video on 27 May 2015, Gerald Ridsdale gives evidence during a child sex abuse royal commission ...

ROME (AP) — One of Pope Francis' top advisers acknowledged Sunday that the Catholic Church "has made enormous mistakes" in allowing thousands of children to be raped and molested by priests over ...

Pope Francis' finance chief Wednesday said he was ready to give evidence at a child abuse inquiry in his native Australia, as the nation's most notorious paedophile priest insisted the pair had little ...

Australias most notorious paedophile priest was Thursday sentenced to another 11 years behind bars for sexually abusing a dozen children, with the judge saying he knew "no boundaries". p pulse Follow ...

Gerald Ridsdale, a convicted paedophile priest who abused over 70 children across three decades, has died at 90 in prison, where he had been held since 1994. His crimes began in 1961 when he was ...