Sean O'Malley

Watch Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s full comments in the above video. Referring to George Floyd’s death as a “murder” carried out “at the hands of four rogue police officers,” Boston’s Archbishop condemned racism as an “evil and moral cancer.” Cardinal Sean O’Malley spoke strongly in a letter Friday night, recognizing the Catholic Church’s “historical complicity in slavery” and calling on...

Cardinal Seán O’Malley held his annual Christmas service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross.

Cardinal Sean O’Malley will once again host his annual Christmas mass in Boston’s South End neighborhood.

An annual tradition of giving in Dorchester is underway again. And this year, there’s no shortage of people in need. The United Way and Catholic Charities of Boston distribute thousands of turkeys and a ton of other food to the community every year. Michael Durkin, the president of United Way, says they’re serving all of the Thanksgiving fixings for 11,000...

An investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and excessive alcohol use at a seminary run by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston did find some “inappropriate” sexual conduct but no evidence of criminal behavior or sexual activity between seminarians and faculty members, the archdiocese announced Friday. The investigation was launched in August 2018 when two seminarians said in social media...

Cardinal Seán O’Malley will continue serving as the ninth bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston after Pope Francis rejected the cardinal’s letter of resignation, according to the Boston Globe.

A lawyer representing victims of clergy sex abuse criticized the Archdiocese of Boston on Tuesday for not listing on its website the names of several priests who have faced accusations, including five clerics who are dead. Attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who has represented hundreds of victims, said by not publicly naming the priests, the diocese has shown it has “lost the...

The head of the Catholic Church in Boston was devastated like so many others over the images of a fire destroying Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. The inferno destroyed the cathedral’s spire and its roof, but its twin bell towers survived. French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to rebuild the centuries-old landmark. “I’m glad that they were able to save as...

Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley is joining Pope Francis and other top U.S. bishops in Rome to discuss the Catholic Church’s sex abuse and cover-up scandal.

Cardinal Sean O’Malley blessed hundreds of people Tuesday as he continued his holiday tradition of Christmass mass in Boston. Hosted at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Cardinal O’Malley shared a lighthearted sermon about the Christmas gifts likely given this year.

Boston’s Catholic Archdiocese has hired a law firm and a former U.S. attorney to lead an investigation into three Boston-area seminaries run by the archdiocese following abuse allegations related to one of them. Cardinal Sean O’Malley announced the decision to expand the investigation into St. John Seminary in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood to two others — Pope St. John XXIII National...

After improvising for nearly three weeks, the dining hall at the Cor Unum meal center in Lawrence, Massachusetts, is back open and serving warm meals for the first time since the gas fires and explosions rocked the Merrimack Valley. The center has been operating for 12 years and never closed after the disaster. However, with no gas service, they were...

The Vatican says Pope Francis will meet Thursday with the head of the U.S. bishops conference and other top U.S. church officials, including Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley, over the sex abuse and cover-up scandal roiling the Catholic Church.

Cardinal Sean O’Malley met with Boston-area priests Tuesday afternoon about the sexual abuse allegations that have recently come to light against clergy in the Catholic Church. Tuesday’s meeting with hundreds of priests at St. Julia Parish in Weston, Massachusetts, came after a scathing report from a Pennsylvania grand jury that found more than a thousand children had been sexually abused...

Cardinal Sean O’Malley is expected to speak with Boston-area priests Tuesday about the sexual abuse allegations that have recently come to light against clergy in the Catholic Church. O’Malley will meet at St. Julia Parish in Weston, Massachusetts, for a biannual prayer gathering. The meeting is expected to focus on the new revelations of alleged abuse.

The archbishop of Boston says he didn’t see a letter sent to his office in 2015 concerning another archbishop’s possibly inappropriate behavior with seminarians. Cardinal Sean O’Malley said Monday the letter was about now ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington. Pope Francis ordered McCarrick removed from public ministry amid allegations he sexually abused a teenage altar boy and engaged...

Cardinal Sean O’Malley says he didn’t see a 2015 letter sent to his office concerning allegations against another archbishop.

Cardinal Sean O’Malley, archbishop of Boston, said he is launching an inquiry into allegations former seminarians made this week about their time at St. John’s Seminary in Brighton. An article by John Monaco, an ex-seminarian from St. John’s, led to an inquiry into allegations of inappropriate sexual activity and excessive drinking. O’Malley asked the seminary’s rector, Monsignor James Moroney, to...

Cardinal Sean O’Malley is launching an investigation into allegations of misconduct at a seminary in Boston’s Brighton neighborhood.

Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley reacted to the allegations against fellow Cardinal Theodore McCarrick.