In 2001, the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo of Zambia, after he received marriage blessings from Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church.
In 2007, Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, a fierce critic of President Robert Mugabe, was forced to step down after he was accused of having an affair and fathering a son with a Ms Rosemary Sibanda.
On July 19, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI, while on tour of Australia made a historic apology for child sex abuse by priests in the country and called for compensation and prosecution of the guilty priests.
In July 2007, the Roman Catholic diocese of Los Angeles agreed to pay a record $660 million to more than 500 victims who were sexually abused by priests dating as far back as 1940s.
