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Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, the archbishop of Cologne, marked his return to work with a lengthy letter to the faithful in which said he was “not returning unchanged, as if nothing had happened in this time.”

Five officials from Midland Christian School, a private Christian academy in Midland, Texas, have been arrested after failing to report the sexual assault of a ninth grade student.

Supporters of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI rose to his defense in the past week after a Munich report on decades of sexual abuse in his former archdiocese accused the retired pontiff of covering up and ignoring abuse by Catholic priests there.

A lay committee looking into historic child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said Thursday that during its first month of work it received allegations from 214 people.

Retired Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged that he did attend a 1980 meeting at which the transfer of a pedophile priest to his then-diocese was discussed, saying an editorial error was responsible for his previous assertion that he wasn't.

Pope Francis expressed “shame” for himself and the Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday for the scale of child sexual abuse within the church in France and acknowledged failures in putting the needs of victims first.

Victims of abuse within France’s Catholic Church welcomed a historic turning point Tuesday after a new report estimated that 330,000 children in France were sexually abused over the past 70 years, providing the country's first accounting of the worldwide phenomenon.

The chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee will call for an independent investigation into the committee’s handling of sexual abuse claims when it meets next week in Nashville, Tennessee.