Columnist: Kevin O'Connor
Judge Allows Claimants To Sue For Parish Assets In Vermont Catholic Bankruptcy Case
A U.S. bankruptcy court will allow clergy abuse claimants to sue for an estimated half-billion dollars in parish assets to fund settlements under the Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese’s current financial ...
Vermont Diocese Struggles To Pay $1.5 Million In Legal Fees After Sexual Abuse Bankruptcy
A year after seeking to reorganize its depleting finances in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the Vermont Roman Catholic Diocese is struggling to cover about $1.5 million and counting in related legal ...
Burlington Diocese Faces 118 More Clergy Misconduct Claims
Vermont’s Roman Catholic Diocese, now seeking to reorganize its depleting finances in U.S. Bankruptcy Court after settling 67 priest misconduct lawsuits, is bracing for a new wave of child sex ...
Vermont’s Diocese Faces Another Wave of Lawsuits for Past Abuse
Vermont’s Roman Catholic Diocese, having spent more than $30 million to settle some 40 priest misconduct lawsuits dating as far back as 1950, faces another wave of court cases alleging ...
Catholic Orphanage Inquiry Concludes with Steps Toward Healing — But no Church Help
When former residents of Burlington’s long-shuttered St. Joseph’s Orphanage saw how a 2018 BuzzFeed News story about past “unrelenting physical and psychological abuse” finally sparked a state investigation, they hoped ...
One Priest: How a Vermont Cleric Kept Abusing Children
The personnel file of the former Rev. Edward Paquette, hidden by Vermont’s Catholic Church for nearly a half-century, contains a startling confession as to why leaders expelled the most problematic ...