Columnist: Robert Herguth
Priestly Secrets and Sexual Misconduct at University of Notre Dame
A recent report says two Catholic priests long associated with the University of Notre Dame preyed on male students and other young adults over a number of years — but ...
Sexual Abuser Priest Was Instructor At The Time Pope Leo Was A Student
The Rev. Nelson Daniel Rupp was assigned to St. Augustine seminary for part of the time Robert Prevost was a student. Highlighted in a report about alleged abuse in the ...
Chicago Priest Accused of Molesting Kids Makes Bombshell Claim Against Leo XIV
A defrocked priest from the suburbs says the future Pope Leo XIV signed off on his move in 2000 to a Hyde Park monastery near a Catholic school after the ...
Chicago-Area Augustinian Priest Kicked Out Of Order
The Rev. Richard J. McGrath was a longtime leader of Providence Catholic High School, run by the Augustinians, whose Midwest province, and ultimately the order worldwide, were led by now-Pope ...
Chicago Catholic Charities Uses Pro-Abortion Lobbying Group
The Catholic church’s social service arm has long offered resources to women with unplanned or unwelcome pregnancies to give them alternatives to abortion, which the church’s leadership opposes. But Catholic ...
Military Archdiocese Turns Its Back On Transparency
Roughly 140 Catholic clerics credibly accused of molesting children have served as military chaplains over the years — including 10 priests who also ministered in Illinois and, altogether, may be ...
Chicago Augustinian Order Paid $2 Million Settlement Over Rape Accusations Against Priest But Left His Name Off Sex Abuser List
After hiding the names of sexually abusive priests and religious brothers for years, the Augustinian Catholic order has posted its first public listing of clergy members in its Chicago province ...
Priest Accused of Sex Abuse Served in 9 Jurisdictions – So Why is He on Just One Abuser List?
As a new Catholic priest in Chicago in the early 1960s and member of the church’s Servite order, the Rev. Mark Santo taught religion and oversaw the glee club at ...
Cupich Reportedly Still Keeping Secrets on Child Sex Abuse
Several years after Cardinal Blase Cupich began cracking down on religious orders to report their sexually abusive clergy members who preyed on minors, the Archdiocese of Chicago has added dozens ...
Emails Show Cardinal Cupich Complicit In Mayor’s Draconian Lockdown Policies for Chicago Churches
In May 2020, Mayor Lori Lightfoot was drawing considerable flak over her stance against churches and other places of worship reopening for services amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But she found ...
How One Catholic Order Closes Its Eyes To Sexual Abuse
Among Catholic religious orders in the United States that, like the U.S. church itself, are facing a national reckoning over clergy sexual abuse of children, the Claretians stand out. The ...
Exporting Abusive Priests: Chicago-Area Catholic Religious Order Reveals Abusers
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, ...
Cardinal Cupich Quietly Using Cemetery Cash To Pay Sex Abuse Costs
For years, the Catholic Church in Chicago has said it enlists two revenue sources to pay for settlements and other costs related to priest sex abuse cases: loans and the ...
Cupich Again Tries to ‘Spin’ the Message with ‘Talking Points’ for Priests
After Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich caught heat in August for making remarks regarded as insensitive about the clergy sex abuse crisis, he took the unusual step of ordering Chicago-area Catholic priests ...
Cupich on Scandal: ‘We Have a Bigger Agenda Than to be Distracted by all of This’
The young man studying at Mundelein Seminary to become a Catholic priest seemed anguished as he vented to Cardinal Blase Cupich about the clergy sex-abuse scandal that threatens to topple Pope ...