When Los Angeles police were investigating allegations of child abuse by a Roman Catholic priest in 1988, they asked for a list of altar boys at the last parish where the priest worked. Archbishop ...

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford has agreed to pay a $2.4 million settlement to a man who says he was sexually ...

A defrocked Roman Catholic priest implicated himself in the 1972 slaying of a Massachusetts altar boy before dying at a hospital last week — saying he gave the boy a “good shove” before he ...

A former altar boy sued the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles on Thursday, alleging that he was sexually abused by a priest in 1987 shortly before the priest fled to his native Mexico to ...

Investigators were preparing to seek an arrest warrant for a defrocked Roman Catholic priest long considered a suspect in the 1972 killing of a western Massachusetts altar boy shortly before his ...

action news 4. michelle: two former altar boys are suing the roman catholic diocese of pittsburgh. kelly f.: of these two plaintiffs, one was only 11 years old, the other 13, when they joined the ...

A Roman Catholic priest in Salem was sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping an altar boy in the 1980s and early ‘90s. Father Ronald H. Paquin, 60, was charged in ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Roman Catholic church confirmed Tuesday that an altar boy was one of two minors killed by gunmen outside a church on Mexico’s Gulf coast.

A 27-year-old former altar boy has sued a Roman Catholic priest whose two sexual assault trials ended in hung juries. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports the lawsuit was filed July 10 against the ...

ATLANTA — As soon as she was old enough, third-grader Ellen Clarke joined the first wave of girl altar servers, helping break up a club reserved for Roman Catholic boys for centuries.

BOSTON (AP) – Investigators were preparing to seek an arrest warrant for a defrocked Roman Catholic priest long considered a suspect in the 1972 killing of a western Massachusetts altar boy ...

MEXICO CITY — The Roman Catholic church confirmed Tuesday that an altar boy was one of two minors killed by gunmen outside a church on Mexico’s Gulf coast.