Complicit Clergy

Hundreds of Accused Clergy Left Off Church’s Sex Abuse Lists

December 28, 2019 from Associated Press by Claudia Lauer

Richard J. Poster served time for possessing child pornography, violated his probation by having contact with children, admitted masturbating in the bushes near a church school and in 2005 was put on a sex offender registry. And yet the former Catholic priest was only just this month added to a list of clergy members credibly … Read more

Big Jump in US Catholic Dioceses Naming Names

January 5, 2019 from Associated Press by Claudia Lauer

Over the past four months, Roman Catholic dioceses across the U.S. have released the names of more than 1,000 priests and others accused of sexually abusing children in an unprecedented public reckoning spurred at least in part by a shocking grand jury investigation in Pennsylvania, an Associated Press review has found. Nearly 50 dioceses and … Read more