Five Minnesota men will file a lawsuit Tuesday against the Vatican in an effort to order the Catholic Church to release names and files involving thousands of clergy who've been accused of sex abuse.

Pope Francis introduced a major change in Catholic law Thursday, requiring all priests and nuns worldwide to report incidents of sex abuse and attempts to cover them up.

California will investigate how the Los Angeles Archdiocese handled sexual abuse allegations, state Attorney General Xavier Bacerra said.

North Korean Christians observed Easter Sunday at a Roman Catholic church in the capital, a Pyongyang propaganda service said Monday.

On April 13, 2009, Phil Spector was found guilty of second-degree murder by a Los Angeles jury in his second trial for the 2003 slaying of Lana Clarkson.

The Vatican said Saturday it defrocked former cardinal of Washington, D.C., Theodore McCarrick, after finding him guilty of sex abuse.

The Democratic Republic of Congo's electoral commission on Wednesday declared opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi the winner of its presidential election.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison confronted Monday a growing child sexual abuse scandal by apologizing to victims.

The U.S. Department of Justice has subpoenaed two Catholic dioceses in a probe into the child sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church of Pennsylvania.

Speaking Sunday in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis entered Pope Paul VI and slain Salvadoran priest Oscar Romero into the Roman Catholic Church's sainthood.

Hundreds of mourners waited hours on Saturday to enter St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church in Amsterdam, N.Y., to pay respects to four families who lost eight children.

Kim Jong Un has invited Pope Francis to Pyongyang.

A Catholic Diocese in Indiana published the names of 18 former priests and deacons the diocese said have been "credibly accused" of sexually abusing children.

Six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania covered up the sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by hundreds of clergymen over the past seven decades.

Philip Wilson, the archbishop of Adelaide, Australia, was found guilty Tuesday of concealing abuse by another priest more than 40 years ago.