Publication: The Guardian
Court Documents Reveal Christian Brothers Kept Nine Child Abusers as Members Due to Gospel Imperative to Help ‘The Needy’
The Christian Brothers has deliberately kept nine convicted child abusers, one who is currently behind bars, as members of its religious order because it says it has a “Gospel imperative” ...
Catholic Leaders KNEW About Abusive Priest And Did Nothing
No public action was taken against Odiong until he committed the ultimate Synodal church taboo -- criticizing LGBTQ+ people. Catholic clergy leaders wanted to add nearly a decade to a ...
New Orleans Attorney Punished for Exposing a Clergy Abuser
Roman Catholic priest Paul Hart had admitted to inappropriate conduct with a teenage girl; been accused of rape by one woman, which he denied; and faced rumors of sexually harassing ...
Ex New Orleans Priest Indicted for Allegedly Raping Disabled Child
A man accused of molesting a disabled boy whom he met while working as a Roman Catholic priest in New Orleans has been indicted on child rape charges, according to ...
Arrest of Priest for Child Molestation Reignites Scandal in Louisiana Diocese
Korey LaVergne, 37, jailed Friday evening on three counts of indecent behavior with a juvenile, according to officials Authorities in south-west Louisiana recently arrested a Roman Catholic priest on accusations ...
Nuns vs the Vatican: New Documentary Alleges Sexual Abuse and Misconduct in the Catholic Church
A complicated stain on Pope Francis’s legacy is further explored in Nuns vs the Vatican, a sensitive and unsettling documentary following women whose sexual abuse allegations were long ignored by ...
Louisiana Judge Orders Return of Devices to Former Priest Caught Having Sex on Church Altar
A judge in Louisiana has ordered the return of electronics belonging to an ex-Roman Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to obscenity for being caught having sex with two dominatrices atop ...
Archdiocese of New Orleans Proposes Sexual Abuse ‘Point System’ as Part of Its Bankruptcy Settlement
Documents filed recently in the New Orleans Roman Catholic archdiocese’s five-year bankruptcy case provide more clarity on how claims will be doled out to victims of clergy abuse if a ...
Film Festival Premieres Clergy Sex Abuse Documentary
A new documentary examining the Catholic clergy molestation scandal in New Orleans – based in part on journalism by the Guardian and its local reporting partner WWL Louisiana – is ...
Admitted Child Rapist Priest Dies One Week Before Beginning to Serve Life Sentence
Admitted child rapist and retired Roman Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker has died a little more than a week after he began serving a sentence of life imprisonment, officials said on ...
Michigan Attorney General Releases Report Accusing 56 People of Sexual Abuse in Lansing Diocese
The state attorney general Dana Nessel’s office published the report as part of a years-long investigation into clergy sexual abuse within Michigan’s Catholic dioceses. The investigation, which began in September ...
‘They Covered-Up Child Rape’: How New Orleans Archdiocese Protected Priest Who Preyed On Children
In the case of serial child molester and retired Catholic priest Lawrence Hecker, the cover-up failed. But it wasn’t for lack of trying by a coalition of high-ranking church officials ...
Retired New Orleans Priest Pleads Guilty to Kidnapping and Raping Boy in 1970s
Shortly before a jury was supposed to be chosen for his trial on criminal charges of kidnapping and raping a boy in the mid-1970s, the self-acknowledged serial child molester and ...
New Orleans Archdiocese Turns to Federal Court to Attack Law Aiding Abuse Victims
Months after Louisiana’s supreme court upheld the constitutionality of a state law that let child molestation victims sue for long-ago abuse, despite arguments to the contrary by a Roman Catholic ...
House of Horrors: Infamous Orphanage’s Abusive History Ran Deeper Than Ever Known
Geo, the name he prefers, sits in a coffee shop on a rainy afternoon as streetcars clang along outside. He is 64. He arrived at Madonna Manor, the Catholic orphanage ...
Archbishop Aymond: ‘Maybe I Lived A Naive Life’
New Orleans archbishop denies knowledge of widespread child sex abuse in 1970s The Roman Catholic archbishop of New Orleans has said the allegations at the heart of a child-sex trafficking ...
Louisiana Supreme Court Hands Major Victory To Child Sexual-Abuse Victims
Louisiana’s state supreme court on Wednesday reversed its decision to strike down a law that allowed child-molestation victims to file civil lawsuits over long-ago abuse. The decision affects all alleged ...
New Orleans Archdiocese Target of Child Sex-Trafficking Inquiry
The Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans is the target of an active child sex-trafficking investigation, according to a sweeping and unprecedented search warrant Louisiana state police recently served on ...
Pope Francis Accused of Opposing Reforms to Tackle Sexual Abuse
Pope Francis has been accused of opposing reforms that would seriously address the problem of clerical sexual abuse of children and vulnerable adults, while “turning a blind eye” to priests ...
Alabama Priest Laicized After Civil Marriage to 18-Year-Old
The Roman Catholic priest in Alabama who married a recent high school graduate after meeting her through his ministry, fleeing to Europe with her and facing law enforcement scrutiny, has ...
Alternative Catholic Synod to Push Case for Ordination of Women Priests
They make up more than half its membership, they have been denied a say for centuries in the way it is run: but, early next month, women will gather in ...
