Publication: Buffalo News
Voices of Survivors of Childhood Abuse: Whalen’s Courage Shattered Walls Within the Church
Jonpaul Okal, raised in Springville, lives with his wife and children in Wisconsin. Five years ago this week, Okal was working at his laptop on a winter’s morning when he ...
Buffalo’s Bishop Grosz Accused of Sexual Abuse
Retired Auxiliary Bishop Edward M. Grosz joins a growing list of American Catholic bishops being investigated for child sex abuse claims or for mishandling abuse allegations. A spokesman for the ...
Buffalo Diocese Priest Who Just Returned To Duty Faces New Allegations
A second allegation of sexual abuse of a child has been filed against a Catholic priest who was recently returned to ministry by the Buffalo Diocese after it ruled a ...
Bishop Malone Finally Resigns
In what has to be one of the most embarrassing displays of a bishop desperately clinging to his episcopal office long after he lost the moral authority to lead, Bishop ...
Buffalo Priests Removed From Ministry Due To Allegations oF Abuse Continued To Be Paid For Decades
About two dozen Catholic Diocese of Buffalo priests removed from ministry due to child sex abuse complaints continue to collect a salary or pension from the diocese. Three of those ...
Former Buffalo Catholic School Assistant Principal Accused of Sexual Abuse by Seven Former Students
Seven people accused the former administrator in a Catholic elementary school in Buffalo of molesting them when they were pre-teen students there. John Curtin allegedly molested the plaintiffs in 1988 ...
Lawsuit Claims Buffalo Priest Abused Kids After Diocese’s Covered-Up Assault
The Buffalo Diocese removed the Rev. Norbert F. Orsolits from a South Buffalo Catholic parish in 1968, shortly after parents complained that Orsolits had molested a 14-year-old boy in the ...
Buffalo Diocese Facing More Lawsuits Than Any Other Defendant in NY
More Child Victims Act lawsuits have been filed against the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo than against any other defendant in New York State, The Buffalo News has determined. From Aug ...
Poll: 86% of Buffalo Catholics Want Bishop Malone to Resign
Contrary to What He Says, Vast Majority of Buffalo Catholics Want Bishop Malone To Resign An overwhelming majority of area Catholics or lapsed Catholics want Bishop Richard J. Malone to ...
Reporter Says He and his Family are ‘Not Welcome’ at New Parish
It was disturbing enough that WKBW-TV investigative reporter Charlie Specht was excluded from Bishop Richard J. Malone’s press conference last week. Now comes word that Specht and his family also ...
Congressman Brian Higgins Calls for Bishop Malone to Step-Down
Brian Higgins is the latest local official to call on Bishop Richard Malone to resign over his handling of sexual abuse allegations in Buffalo Catholic Diocese. "Overwhelming evidence recently released ...
Tone-Deaf Bishop Malone Says He Won’t Resign
Facing another in a series of scandals enveloping the Buffalo Diocese, Bishop Richard J. Malone said this afternoon that he does not plan to resign as the leader of the ...
WATCH: Buffalo Abuse Survivor Calls for Boycott and Bishop Malone’s Resignation
At what point does a person say enough is enough and initiates something to make a change? How far do you need to be pushed before you are angry ...
Buffalo Police Aided and Abetted Molestation by Priests
It was a conspiracy and someone should pay. Attorney General Letitia James is the one to make sure it happens. As disturbing as it is to know that Buffalo police ...
FBI Engaged in Wide-Ranging Probe in Buffalo Diocese
Mark Lynch says he was molested by a priest when he was 13. The abuse happened 50 years ago, well beyond when a sex crime could be prosecuted. But the FBI ...