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Louisiana Grand Jury Charges Disgraced Priest With Sexual Assault of Teenage Boy
A state grand jury has charged a now-91-year-old disgraced priest with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 1975, an extraordinary prosecution that could shed new light on what Roman Catholic ...
Top Expert Resigns From Vatican Sex Abuse Committee, Raising Serious Questions About Cardinal O’Malley’s Leadership
Father Hans Zollner, one of the leading members of the Vatican committee against child sexual abuse, said on Wednesday he had resigned from the group, citing concerns over the way ...
McCarrick Asks Court to Dismiss Sex Assault Case
Lawyers for former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick filed a motion Monday to dismiss a case charging him with sexually assaulting a boy decades ago, saying the 92-year-old once-powerful American ...
Midterm Elections Expose Bishops’ Epic Failure To Catechize The Laity
When a majority of Catholics vote to kill children, Bishops must acknowledge most Catholics are on the highway to Hell. In the midterm elections, evangelical Christians across the nation reconfirmed ...
Archdiocese of Seattle Settles 2 Sex Abuse Claims for $375K
The Archdiocese of Seattle said Thursday it will pay $375,000 to settle two separate claims of sexual abuse in the 1970s and 1980s. The Roman Catholic archdiocese said in a ...
Camden Diocese Agrees to $87.5M Sex Abuse Settlement
A New Jersey Catholic diocese has agreed to pay $87.5 million to settle claims involving clergy sex abuse with some 300 alleged victims in one of the largest cash settlements ...
Biden Says Pope Told Him He’s a ‘Good Catholic’ and Should Continue to Receive Communion
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday that Pope Francis had told him he should keep receiving Communion, amid fierce debate in the U.S. Church over Biden's position on abortion ...
Polish Bishop Caught-Up In Abuse Negligence Case Resigns
Pope Francis on Saturday accepted the resignation of the bishop of the Polish diocese of Kalisz who has been accused of shielding priests known to have sexually abused children. A ...
NJ Priest Arrested, Charged With Sexual Misconduct
A Roman Catholic priest serving the Newark area was arrested and is facing two charges related to sexually harassing an adult, police said. A woman first reported that Donato Cabardo, ...
Pope Taps Former Bank of Italy Exec to Head Watchdog Agency
Pope Francis has tapped a former Bank of Italy executive to take over the Vatican’s financial intelligence unit following a scandal that resulted in the Vatican being suspended from an ...
Victims Relive Trauma as Wisconsin Clergy Sexual Abuse Grows
When she was 7, Patty Gallagher was chosen to bring the priest who served her parish and school in Monona, Wisconsin, his daily milk. The Rev. Lawrence Trainor was practically ...
28 Priests, Brothers Credibly Accused in Salina, Kansas Diocese
Allegations of clergy sexual abuse have been substantiated against 28 priests or religious clergy in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salina in central Kansas in cases mostly stemming from the 1950s to ...
Brooklyn Diocese Lists Names of 108 Priests Accused of Abuse
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York, on Friday published the names of more than 100 priests who have been credibly accused of sexually abusing minors over the diocese's 166-year-history. The ...
Former Top Vatican Official Says Pope Should Resign Over Abuse Crisis
A former top Vatican official has accused Pope Francis of having known of allegations of sex abuse by a prominent U.S. cardinal for years and called on him to resign, ...