Huddled in a law office on Hamilton Street, the district attorneys of the five counties in the Allentown Catholic Diocese spent days poring over files that detailed nearly two dozen allegations that ...

For decades, the law that governs the Roman Catholic Church has required every diocese within the church to maintain secret archives of documents containing sensitive material and “acts of criminal ...

The remnants of our past could be hidden in the most random locations, waiting for someone to stumble upon them. It was the case with a volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in ...

Mary McAleese says approach came while inquiries into child abuse involving Catholic church were under way The Vatican sought a deal with the Irish state in 2003 to keep church archives closed, ...