Complicit Clergy

Exporting Abusive Priests: Chicago-Area Catholic Religious Order Reveals Abusers

May 14, 2021 from Chicago Sun-Times by Robert Herguth

Even before he was ordained a Catholic priest, the Rev. Ronald Lange went to Ghana in 1968 to do missionary work. In a profile by a community newspaper years later, Lange spoke of his commitment to learning about Ghana while teaching at schools there and leading a parish with more than a dozen worship sites. … Read more

Defrocked Priest Faces Day of Reckoning

April 10, 2021 from Chicago Sun-Times by Staff

It was the same every night. A list of names was posted on the bedroom door of the Rev. Richard Daschbach, a revered Catholic priest in Asia who’d trained and been ordained decades earlier by his religious order, the Society of the Divine Word, at its Techny grounds near Northbrook. The child at the top … Read more