Sexual Abuse
Official Vatican News Praises Cardinal Bernardin, McCarrick’s “Dear Friend”
The official portal of the Holy See has devoted extensive coverage to the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Cardinal Joseph Louis Bernardin, Archbishop of Chicago from 1982 to 1996 ...
Seminarian Sex Trafficking Cover-Up
Part one of a two-part interview U.S. mainstream and Catholic media have not reported on the sex trafficking of foreign seminarians who for decades were used as “young meat” by ...
Lawsuits Against Chicago Archdiocese Allege Sexual Abuse At Former South Side Parish
A Chicago law firm is set to announce lawsuits Tuesday alleging decades of child sexual abuse by priests assigned to a former South Side parish. Hart McLaughlin & Eldridge said ...
Argentine Bishop Removed From Office Following Allegations By 2 Adults
Ricardo Seirutti has been removed from the office of auxiliary bishop and vicar general of the Archdiocese of Córdoba, Argentina, following a canonical process initiated due to “allegations made by ...
Australian Bishop Sentenced To 6 Years For Sexually Abusing Boys
The former bishop of Australia’s Broome diocese was sentenced Wednesday to six years and six months in prison for sexually abusing two young Aboriginal men. Bishop Christopher Saunders, who led ...
Former Baltimore Priest Found Guilty Of Sexually Abusing 10-Year-Old Boy
A former Catholic priest was found guilty on Thursday of sexually abusing a student at a Catonsville Catholic school in the 1990s. William Mannion Jr. was accused of abusing the ...
AG Campbell Steps Up Calls for Worcester Diocese to Release Names of Priests Accused of Abuse
The recent release of an explosive state report about clergy sexual abuse of children is stirring up old pain for people like 67-year-old Edna Wallace. Wallace is one of at ...
WATCH: Bankruptcy Judge Rejects Oakland Diocese Plan To Resolve Hundreds Of Sex Abuse Claims
A federal bankruptcy judge has rejected a plan from the Diocese of Oakland that would resolve nearly 350 sexual abuse claims and chart a path out of Chapter 11. Plaintiffs’ ...
Vermont Diocese Seeks Withdrawal From Bankruptcy Filing, Citing Legal Costs, Lack Of Progress
The Diocese of Burlington, Vermont, has moved to withdraw its bankruptcy filing, two years to the day after seeking relief to address sexual abuse claims. In a Sept. 30 statement, ...
Rupnik Victims Write Letter To Pope Leo
(ITALY) Laura Sgrò [Rome, Italy] September 23, 2026 By Gloria Branciani, Mirjam Kovac, Sister Samuelle, Vida Bernard, and Pia Your Holiness, We are five victims of Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik: ...
Jesuits Finally Expel Francesc Peris, Acknowledging “Serious Errors” Regarding His Abuses
Jesuit Francesc Peris, accused of sexually abusing minors for decades in Spain and Bolivia, has been expelled from the clerical state and from the Society of Jesus after being found ...
English Priest Pleads Guilty to 109 Sex Offenses
A priest has pleaded guilty to 109 sex offences at Londonderry Crown Court. Edward Gallagher, 59, whose address is Maghaberry Prison, will be sentenced in December for offences between 22 ...
Founder of Institutes of the Incarnate Word Found Guilty of Abuse
Argentine Father Carlos Miguel Buela has been found guilty “of acts constituting an offence against the sixth commandment, committed with violence against several people.” Ecclesiastical tribunals have definitively established the ...
Massachusetts AG Says Nearly 1,000 Children Were Abused In Dioceses Of Fall River, Springfield, And Worcester
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell's office released a report Wednesday detailing the findings of their investigation into child sexual abuse in the Catholic dioceses of Fall River, Springfield and ...
Chiclayo: The File Rome Must Now Open
The allegations surrounding Robert Prevost’s handling of clerical abuse complaints in Chiclayo have never justified the easy accusation that the future Pope deliberately protected abusers. Nor, however, can the equally ...
Pope Tells French Bishops That ‘Scourge’ Of Abuse Must Be Rooted-Out
Pope Leo has called on French bishops to root out the "scourge" of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic church, urging them to "maintain the greatest vigilance". The Pope delivered ...
Former Argentine Nun Jailed For 20 Years For Sexually Abusing Deaf Children
A court in Mendoza on Thursday sentenced former nun Kumiko Kosaka to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing deaf children at a religious institute in western province. Kosaka, 51, ...
Victim Claims Years Of Homosexual Abuse By 2 Priests
He trusted a Catholic priest with his secrets in the sacred space of a confessional, but at the same time, he claims the cleric was abusing him. This, according to ...
Investigation Of Baton Rouge Bishop Turned-Over To Vatican
New Orleans Archbishop Checchio confirmed that the investigation into the Diocese of Baton Rouge’s handling of the case involving Catholic Priest Father Charbel Jamhoury has been completed and forwarded to ...
1983 Code Of Canon Law Protects Pedophile And Abusive Priests
A priest can sexually abuse a child and then use a diagnosis of pedophilia to argue that he deserves less punishment. Church courts have accepted this argument. Australia’s government conducted ...
New Orleans Bankruptcy Trustee: Archdiocese STILL Suppressing Credibly Accused Clergy Names
The trustee overseeing the bankruptcy settlement between the Archdiocese of New Orleans and hundreds of clergy sex abuse survivors is questioning the local Roman Catholic Church’s commitment to provisions of ...
