Head of New Orleans’ embattled Catholic archdiocese offers to resign
Ramon Antonio Vargas and David Hammer of WWL Louisiana in New Orleans New Orleans’ Roman Catholic archbishop Gregory Aymond is...
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Nov 12
Diocese of Oakland says it will pay up to $200 million for hundreds of abuse claims
By Daniel Payne The Diocese of Oakland, California, has announced that it will pay up to $200 million to settle hundreds of abuse claims...
Nov 9
New Orleans archdiocese agrees to release secret files on clergy accused of child sexual abuse
Ramon Antonio Vargas and David Hammer of WWL Louisiana in New Orleans In a gesture of reconciliation to victims of its decades-old...
Nov 9
20 years of abuse settlements for US Catholic dioceses exceeds $5 billion total
By Gina Christia (OSV News) — The Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ $880 million abuse claims settlement, announced Oct. 16, brings the total...
Nov 1
Court decision shielding clergy sex abuse investigation records appealed by Washington state
Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez The Washington Attorney General's office says Catholic Church records related to child sex abuse do not qualify...
Oct 30
Catholic church still failing to deal with sexual abuse cases, says Vatican report
Church leaders who fail to take action against paedophile priests are a “further source of evil” for victims of sexual abuse and should...
Oct 30
The Wages of Sin Paid by the Innocent
David G Bonagura, Jr. After years of bankruptcy litigation, my diocese has just agreed to a record $330 million payout to victims of...
Oct 30
L.A. Catholic church covered up molesting priests for decades. The price: $1.5 billion and so much pain
...the number of people alleging abuse by Catholic priests stands at nearly 2,500;... true number could be much higher Christina House
Oct 17
Archdiocese of Los Angeles Agrees to Pay $880 Million to Settle Sex Abuse Claims
The settlement is the highest single payout by an archdiocese, experts said, and brings Los Angeles’s cumulative payout in sex abuse lawsuit
Oct 14
When top Vatican officials clash on sex-abuse discipline…
By Phil Lawler In more than 40 years of covering news of the Catholic Church, I have never encountered a Vatican story as wild as this...
Oct 11
Abuse crisis in Catholic Church has led to drop in Mass attendance
A third of Catholics who previously went to Mass have reduced their attendance or stopped going altogether as a result of the child...
Oct 11
At Synod on Synodality, pope says Church needs new ways for bishops to be ‘synodal’
By Hannah Brockhaus At the first meeting of the full assembly of the Synod on Synodality on Wednesday, Pope Francis said a bishop’s...
Oct 11
Cardinal Dolan Says Archdiocese is Suing Insurer to Force it to Pay Sex Abuse Claims
Daniel Payne/CNA New York Archbishop Cardinal Timothy Dolan this week said the archdiocese’s longtime insurer is “attempting to evade...
Oct 11
Expose evil, denounce abuse, no more coverups, pope says
Carol Glatz Calling on the world’s bishops not to cover up any instance or form of abuse, Pope Francis said the evil of abuse must be...
Oct 11
In Belgium, pope apologizes for clergy abuse; prime minister says words alone are insufficient
by Christopher White Brussels — September 27, 2024 Pope Francis on Sept. 27 kicked off a three-day trip to Belgium by asking...
Oct 11
Dublin archbishop responds to revelations of sexual abuse in Catholic schools
By Matthieu Lasserre “The faithful across the dioceses of Ireland named the toll of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, along with its...
Oct 11
Texas files more sexual assault charges against Catholic priest accused of preying on women
Ramon Antonio Vargas A grand jury in Texas has handed up more felony sexual assault charges against a Roman Catholic priest accused of...
Oct 11
Pope expels a bishop and 9 other people from a Peru movement over ‘sadistic’ abuses
ByAssociated Pressand Claudia Rebaza , CNN VATICAN CITY Associated Press — Pope Francis took the unusual decision Wednesday to expel 10...
Sep 27
Dublin archbishop responds to revelations of sexual abuse in Catholic schools
“The faithful across the dioceses of Ireland named the toll of physical, sexual and emotional abuse, along with its concealment as the...
Sep 27
Texas files more sexual assault charges against Catholic priest accused of preying on women
New indictment leaves Anthony Odiong facing seven sexual assault charges – all in connection with three women
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