The church sex abuse scandals unravelling at Roman Catholic-run schools and institutions across Europe has reached Switzerland, where senior clergy admitted yesterday that 60 claims were under investigation. (SEE VIDEO)

Pop legend Elton John has claimed Jesus was a “super-intelligent gay man” in an interview with a US Parade magzine. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

The former Archbishop Edgardo Gabriel Storni was sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual abuse, according to the sentence issued by Judge Maria Amalia Mascheroni.

The city council of the US capital, Washington, voted Tuesday to legalize gay marriage, a council official said.

Lady Gaga has revealed she has had “sexual relationships” with women but has never fallen in love with one. (VIDEO AVAILABLE)

A Polish priest has published a sex manual advising couples to have a ’saucy and fantasy packed’ love life. The book, ‘In Sex as you don’t know it: For married couples who love God’, has been described as a “Catholic Kama Sutra”.

The late Pope John Paul II could be beatified within months, setting him on the path to full sainthood, according to reports in Italy.

Mickey Rourke has revealed that he was on the verge of suicide before he turned to the Catholic Church for help.

The first layman who headed the press office of the Vatican, Joaquin Navarro Valls, told Spanish newspaper El Mundo that John Paul could be a saint before the year ends.

The death was caused by a brutal beating. But she explained it in a different way: She lay him down on a picture of Jesus Christ and tried to exorcise him with prayer, holy water and the help of two other younger children.

Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani, Archbishop of Lima and Primate of the Catholic Church in Peru, told Peru’s radio that “We have heard of a presidents meeting in Bariloche that resembled a chicken coop. Thank God President Alan García had prudence and good sense to put a little order, but what a neighborhood. “

No one wants to see the boats of immigrants without papers, as well as under the Nazis did not want to see the trains full of Jews transported to death camps” the episcopate

As part of the 153th meeting of the Permanent Commission of the Episcopate, and amid growing controversy, the Catholic Church insisted this morning that poverty reaches 40 per cent in Argentina and stated that the gap between the rich and the poor is scandalous.

Pope Benedicto XVI called the Catholics to make an effort “to curb poverty and social inequity in Argentina”

Pope Benedict XVI dismissed the bishop of Minas (Uruguay), Francisco Domingo Barbosa Da Silveira, who denounced an extortion that left uncovered he was having homosexual relations, informed today the Vatican.

An important member of the episcopal commission of Catholic Education criticized that public education does not include religious education.

The Miami priest recently photographed with a bikini-clad woman joined the Episcopal Church today with his fiancee.

Grassi was accused of 17 sexual abuses and minors’ corruption, and he is expecting to be declared innocent by the Court.

Priests beat and raped children during decades of abuse in Catholic-run institutions in Ireland, an official report said on Wednesday, but it stopped short of naming the perpetrators.

During Mass, the Pope urged the congregation not to forget the “great dignity” that comes from their Christian heritage.