The jury convicted Cardinal George Pell of abusing two 13-year-old boys whom he had caught swigging sacramental wine in a rear room of Melbourne's St. Patrick's Cathedral in late 1996.
The publication marks a significant public acknowledgment from inside the Vatican of the problem that the Holy See has long known about but has done next to nothing to address.
A spokeswoman said that the allegations date back decades and include some priests who are now deceased.
Disturbing video footage of the incident went viral in June 2018.
A blog devoted to the roundly-debunked "Pizzagate" story reprinted an equally false post from 2014 about the leader of the Catholic Church.
The bishops announced at the end of an emergency Vatican summit that all 31 active bishops in Rome had signed a document offering to resign.
A shocking story about the Pontiff's upending thousands of years of tradition originated on, you guessed it, a hoax site.
The Vatican disputed claims that Pope Francis denied the existence of Hell.
A letter documents a Catholic orphanage’s sale of a Native American child to an Illinois couple.
Reports that a cardinal announced that the Catholic Church no longer believes that Jesus will return came from a fake news web site.
In 2012, President Obama was overheard over a hot microphone telling President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia he would have "more flexibility" to negotiate with Putin after the election.
The "Gyro Drop" is a real amusement park ride, but a popular video of it relies on some imagination.
A niche genre of 'satire' sexualizes animated characters.
As of late May 2019, a new Facebook feature allowing users to report technical problems by shaking their phones was being rolled out gradually to all mobile accounts.
In the early 1900s, Allan Warner documented several cases of smallpox and the effects of vaccinations.
