VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A Vatican appeals court on Tuesday convicted a priest of sexually abusing a fellow student while they were both attending a school for papal altar boys. Partially overturning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Father Gabriele Martinelli's original acquittal was overturned by a Vatican appeal court A Catholic priest has been jailed for ...

The Vatican Court of Appeals sentenced an Italian priest to jail on Jan. 23 for “the crime of corruption of minors” relating to the sexual abuse of a fellow student at a school for papal altar boys.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A prosecutor for the Holy See asked a Vatican court Thursday to convict and sentence an Italian priest for the alleged sexual abuse of a former altar boy on Vatican City property.

Giuseppe Pignatone, president of the Vatican City criminal court, reads the verdict at the end of the first trial of Father Gabriele Martinelli on charges of sexually abusing a younger student at the ...