Publication: New York Times
Federal Government Tells Catholic Bishops Not to Destroy Sex Abuse Documents
The Department of Justice has sent a sweeping request to every Roman Catholic diocese in the United States not to destroy documents related to the handling of child sexual abuse, ...
Pope Accepts Wuerl’s Resignation as Washington Archbishop, but Calls Him a ‘Model Bishop’
Pope Francis on Friday accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, a moment many victims of clerical sexual abuse had hoped would demonstrate his commitment to ...
Argentina: Raid at School for Deaf in Clerical Abuse Probe
Argentine authorities raided a Catholic-run school for youths with hearing disabilities Thursday as part of an investigation into alleged sexual abuse of vulnerable children that has shocked Pope Francis's homeland ...
5 States Are Investigating Potential Cover-Ups of Sex Abuse in Catholic Dioceses
Newly emboldened attorneys general across the United States have begun to take an aggressive stance toward investigating sex abuse by Catholic clergy, examining whether church officials covered up malfeasance, issuing ...
Pennsylvania Grand Jury Says Church Had a ‘Playbook for Concealing the Truth’
Avoid scandal. Use euphemisms. Ask inadequate questions. Lock complaints away in a “secret archive.” Above all, don’t tell the police. Those are some of the tactics that leaders of the ...
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Resigns Amid Sexual Abuse Scandal
Acting swiftly to contain a widening sex abuse scandal at the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church, the pope officially suspended the cardinal from the exercise of any public ...
The Catholic Church Needs an Inquest into What the Pederast Cardinal’s Colleagues Knew and When
One of the best things that the bishops of the American Catholic Church did during the great wave of sex abuse revelations 16 years ago — and yes, there’s a ...
He Preyed on Men Who Wanted to Be Priests. Then He Became a Cardinal.
As a young man studying to be a priest in the 1980s, Robert Ciolek was flattered when his brilliant, charismatic bishop in Metuchen, N.J., Theodore E. McCarrick, told him he ...
American Cardinal Accused of Sexually Abusing Minor Is Removed From Ministry
Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington and a prominent Roman Catholic voice in international and public policy, has been removed from ministry after an investigation found credible ...
