Therapists, like me, want their clients to know how to recognize abuse because abuse can cause trauma, which may lead to anxiety, depression, PTSD, and a variety of irrational beliefs. Any of these ...

On July 3, Lexington was rocked by news that a pastor at LexCity Church had been arrested for allegedly having sex with a minor for nearly a year before. Zachary King, 47, is facing charges of ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has asked the Vatican to study whether the Catholic Church should classify "spiritual abuse" as a new crime in order to address cases where priests use purported ...

I received another email from a self-described reader "who is 70+, a white male, grew up in the South, raised in a SB church, and attend[s] one at present." He said this: "For what it is worth, I too ...

Nothing has done the Church more tragic harm, and compromised our witness more, than corruption arisen within our own house” Bishop Erik Varden said to Pope Leo XIV and other Vatican officials on ...

An event called "Fields of Faith" was held recently at the Ozark High School football stadium. The mother of a friend of Stella's texted me about it last week, glad it was happening. "We haven't had ...

A person prays during a Mass at the Brazil's Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida Oct. 12, 2021. As dioceses and shrines are questioning how best to limit the use of artwork created by Slovenian Father ...

Archbishop Filippo Iannone, right, and Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa hold a press conference to illustrate the changes in the Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law at the Vatican, Tuesday, June 1, ...

The first research study into the sexual abuse of women religious in German-speaking countries has shown a common pattern of spiritual abuse with global cases and highlighted that the majority of ...