Both the court battle and a criminal case involving a group of Arlington nuns and the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth is over. Arlington Police told NBC 5 Friday afternoon that they did not find probable cause to pursue a criminal case after drug use was reported to be taking place inside the secluded monastery … Read more
President Joe Biden welcomed hundreds to the White House on Saturday for a delayed Pride Month celebration aimed at showing LGBTQ+ people that his administration has their back at a time when advocates are warning of a spike in discriminatory legislation, particularly aimed at the transgender community, sweeping through statehouses. RELATED: Wilton Gregory Orders Priests To Give Joe … Read more
A defrocked New York priest “credibly accused” of sexually abusing a minor runs a charity that provides scholarships to Catholic schools for underprivileged children, according to public records. John J. Voglio, 65, is president of Mary F. Clancy Charities, which was founded in 2000 by another former priest, John Harrington, who was also accused of … Read more
An NBC Bay Area analysis of nearly 700 lawsuits filed against Catholic institutions across Northern California over the past three years suggests the church’s child sexual abuse scandal in the region is significantly worse than the public previously knew. More than 200 of the clergy and lay employees of the Catholic Church named in … Read more
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg has filed a plan of reorganization with federal bankruptcy court. Under the proposed plan, an $18.25 million Survivor Compensation Trust will be established to provide financial restitution to survivors of clergy sexual abuse. The diocese and related entities will contribute $7.5 million to the trust, and insurers will provide … Read more
Dozens of Northern California Catholic priests and church employees – some still working, others retired or deceased – are being publicly accused for the first time of sexually abusing children in their care. The allegations suggest startling new depths to the decades-long scandal that continues to rock the church and its followers. Those new … Read more
Three months after members of the Dallas Jesuit community were named on a list of clergy “credibly accused” of sexual abuse of a minor, a lawsuit has been filed by a former student at Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas. The suit dates back to 1978 when it claims Donald Dickerson, a former Jesuit … Read more
The Chicago Archdiocese is in the midst of a major overhaul that will leave it with 123 fewer parishes by July 1 of this year. The archdiocese faces multiple challenges, including fewer Catholic priests, fewer people in the pews, old buildings that need repairs and financial shortages. Renata Gryzk, a parishioner who has seen her … Read more
A Miami priest who serves as a pastor at Saint James Catholic Church learned last month that he’s the father of a child, the archdiocese said Tuesday. Monsignor Chanel Jeanty discovered in December that he’d fathered the child from a relationship that ended over a year ago, the archdiocese said in a statement. Catholic … Read more
The chaplain of Bishop Dwenger High School, who also served as a pastor at a parish in a nearby county has resigned following allegations of sexual misconduct involving a minor. In a statement to Fort Wayne’s NBC Monday morning, the Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend said it was made aware of allegations against Father … Read more