Publication: The Guardian
Wave of Child Sex Abuse Claims Could Bankrupt Cardinal McElroy’s Diocese
The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego has said it may declare bankruptcy in the coming months as it faces “staggering” legal costs in dealing with some 400 lawsuits alleging ...
New Orleans Priest Accused Of Child Rape Now Under Scrutiny For Financial Crimes
A Catholic priest who led one of New Orleans’ best-known inner-city churches until being accused of sexually molesting a child has been reported to federal authorities for possible financial crimes ...
Italian Priest Uses Inflatable Mattress as Altar During Mass in Sea
A priest who celebrated mass in the sea using an inflatable mattress as an altar has been placed under investigation by Italian authorities. Father Mattia Bernasconi, 36, from the archdiocese ...
Bishop Howard Hubbard Admits To Covering-Up Sexual Abuse
The retired bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Albany, New York, has acknowledged covering up allegations of sexual abuse against children by priests in part to avoid scandal and ...
WATCH: New Documentary Gives Voice To Abuse Survivors
I can’t risk not being believed and people thinking I’m exploiting what happened to me,” says Ed Gavagan, a survivor of child sexual abuse and one of the participants in ...
Little Progress Since Vatican’s Sex Abuse Summit
The Vatican has done little to seriously address the problem of clerical sexual abuse one year on from an unprecedented summit at which bishops and cardinals heard the testimony of ...
Pope Francis Christmas Address: God Loves Even Those Who Make ‘A Complete Mess of Things’
Pope Francis has delivered midnight Mass by saying the celebration of Jesus’s birth reminded humanity how “God continues to love us all, even the worst of us”. The pontiff told ...
Three More Altar Boys Say They Were Abused by Priests in Vatican
Three more former altar boys have claimed they were sexually abused by two priests in the Vatican, as the child abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic church zeroed in ...
Oakland Diocese Releases List of 45 Men Accused of Sexual Abuse
The Catholic diocese of Oakland has released the names of 45 priests, deacons and religious brothers who officials say are “credibly accused” of sexually abusing minors. The San Francisco Chronicle says the list goes ...
Four in Five Vatican Priests are Gay, Claims New Book
Some of the most senior clerics in the Roman Catholic church who have vociferously attacked homosexuality are themselves gay, according to a book to be published next week. Eighty per ...
Dutch Catholic Church Accused of Widespread Sexual Abuse Cover-Up
20 of 39 Dutch cardinals, bishops and auxiliaries ‘covered up sexual abuse, allowing perpetrators to cause many more victims’, report says More than half of the Netherlands’ senior clerics were ...
