A Roman Catholic organization in California that is devoted to serving the poor has filed for bankruptcy as it faces nearly 100 lawsuits related to sex abuse claims stretching as far back as the 1940s ...

NEW BEDFORD — After a prayer-filled journey of three years, the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate of Our Lady's Chapel and their lay apostolate will launch their new Catholic radio station Friday, ...

A prominent Catholic friar recently expressed sympathy for some pedophiles, including defrocked priests and convicted pedophile former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, saying that ...

WASHINGTON — A local friar is relying on his baking skills to help hundreds of people in need in the DMV. Capuchin Franciscan Brother Andrew Corriente, a fourth-year divinity student at Catholic ...

A Catholic friar was arrested after prosecutors say he blocked access to a Planned Parenthood by fastening padlocks and bike locks — some with glue poured inside — to its entry gates. After police ...

DULAC, La. — Only in southern Louisiana would you see a friar traveling down the bayou in a canoe. Two weeks ago the residents of Dulac, near the Gulf of Mexico approximately 70 miles southwest of New ...

In this Monday, June 8, 2020 file photo, a cross sits in the window of an empty classroom at a Catholic high school. A Catholic friar who was a teacher and principal at the St. Francis School in ...

Two Franciscan friars pleaded no contest Friday in Blair County to allowing a member of their order to sexually abuse more than 100 children at a Johnstown Catholic high school in the 1990s, according ...