Former Vatican diplomat Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, who served as an ambassador to the Dominican Republic, was defrocked after being convicted of child sexual abuse.
In what is being considered a secular victory, the British government has banned the teaching of creationism as science in all free schools and academies in the country.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has allowed unannounced assessments in schools across the English Midlands after education inspectors filed a report highlighting evidence of Islamist infiltration in several schools in Birmingham.
The Catholic diocese of Trenton in New Jersey said it was not responsible for the molestation of a teenage boy by a priest as the accused was off duty when the abuse took place.
The Catholic Church in Ireland is under fire after a researcher discovered at least 796 dead bodies of babies in the septic tank of a former home for unwed mothers.
