Columnist: Deena Yellin
Camden Diocese Used Secret Court Hearing to Block Investigation of Clergy Sex Abuse
When New Jersey's attorney general announced an investigation into decades of alleged sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, survivors in the state hoped they would finally see the public reckoning they ...
Former Priest Ordained and Allegedly Abused by Theodore McCarrick Files Lawsuit
Michael Reading decided to sue after Cardinal Joseph Tobin refused to respond to letter. Michael Reading fled the priesthood 25 years ago because he was wrestling with personal and professional ...
Catholic Church Was Warned About McCarrick Decades Ago, Yet Promotions and Honors Kept Coming
In the late 1980s, several seminary students approached one of their professors imploring him for help, saying they didn't want to take any more trips to Newark Archbishop Theodore McCarrick’s ...
‘Secret’ Catholic Files Called Key to Exposing the Full Clergy Abuse Scandal
Bruce Novozinsky says he was a 16-year-old seminary student when his longtime parish priest, the Rev. Gerry Brown of St. Mary of the Lake in Lakewood abused him and attempted to rape ...