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Only 34 tweets into his papacy, Pope Benedict XVI has announced his resignation (although it’s worth noting that he did not make the announcement on […]

For the first time in 600 years, the Pontiff will resign. The purported reason? Age. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have […]

Sugar Daddies strike Philly again. Yesterday, a group of–no surprise here–ministers protested a billboard along I-95 in Southwest Philly advertising a paid hook-up/basically prostitution service […]

After nine days of testimony and 20 hours of deliberation, a jury has convicted schoolteacher Bernard Shero and Reverand Charles Englehart each on multiple charges, […]

Perhaps more so than anyone else, defrocked priest Edward Avery has been at the heart of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s child sex abuse scandal. In […]

Prosecutors rested their case today against the Rev. Charles Engelhardt and former lay teacher Bernard Shero on charges the two men sexually abused the same boy […]

In a scene no doubt hauntingly familiar to many Philadelphians, Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles on Monday apologized for mishandling sex abuse allegations that […]

Jurors in Bernard Shero’s case today heard testimony about his attempted suicide in 2011, on the same day he’d been expected to turn himself in […]

Caroline Pla from Bucks County is the catalyst for what is quickly becoming a national cause celebre, and she’s handling the spotlight impressively. Poised and […]

Several months after it cut jobs and sold off a couple opulent mansions to raise money, the Archdiocese of Philadelphia is selling the Holy Family […]

For a period of three years in the late 1980s, a former dean at Widener University repeatedly abused a teenage boy by performing oral sex on […]

Thanks, priests. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has kicked a girl off her Catholic Youth Organization team in Bucks County, citing some rule disallowing female players […]

In the ecclesiastical equivalent of your mom joining Facebook, Pope Benedict XVI has joined Twitter—and, as of this writing, wracked up more than 100,000 followers […]

Election 2012 has come and gone, and at least one thing has become clear: It’s time to start taxing the churches. The IRS might finally […]

If George Weigel has his way, the Catholic Church may be about to get out of the civil marriage business. You may not have heard […]