Abuse in the News 4/10

Aug 27, 2023

San Francisco Archdiocese declares bankruptcy amid hundreds of lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse

Stop donating to Bishops who support guilty predators

Aug 18, 2023

Sex Abuse Advocates Call on Ohio AG to Investigate Ohio's Catholic Churches

Dave Yost told reporters his office doesn't have the legal authority to investigate "matters like this." By Madeline Fening National,...

Aug 13, 2023

N.O. Archdiocese clergy abuse much greater than we've been told, attorney memo alleges

David Hammer NEW ORLEANS — A secret memo written by attorneys for victims of clergy sexual abuse says more than 300 New Orleans Catholic...

Aug 6, 2023

San Francisco archbishop says Catholic archdiocese may declare bankruptcy over child abuse lawsuits

SAN FRANCISCO — The Catholic archbishop of San Francisco says the Archdiocese may seek bankruptcy protection because of claims of child...

Aug 3, 2023

Retired bishop of Albany who is accused of abuse says he is married

Boston, Mass., Aug 1, 2023 / 15:25 pm The retired bishop of Albany, who is facing allegations that he both covered up and personally...

Jul 28, 2023

Archdiocese's lawyers make millions as hundreds of sex abuse survivors haven't seen any money

It's $13 million and counting to the church’s own bankruptcy lawyers and accountants, who have fought to justify the church’s need for...

Jul 28, 2023

Abuse scandal cost US dioceses, religious orders over $200M in 2021-22

CWN Editor's Note: According to the new annual report released by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Child...

Jul 28, 2023

Abuse survivors speak out at bishop’s installation

Bishop Steven Wright of Hexham and Newcastle received prayer ribbons alongside his symbols of office.

Jul 20, 2023

CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE DISAPPEARING

Comment by HOC: If it is true that the abuse issues are “virtually over and practically nonexistent” then the dioceses should be more...

Jul 18, 2023

We researched 'just one Jesuit' credibly accused of sex abuse. Here's what we learned.

July 11, 2023 In Ryan's freshman year at Creighton Preparatory School, an all-boys Jesuit high school in Omaha, Nebraska, he was called...

Jul 13, 2023

Behind the rare criminal conviction of a Catholic cleric in New Orleans

Ramon Antonio Vargas For years, leaders at the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New Orleans – the second-oldest organization of its kind in...

Jul 7, 2023

Catholic Church isn’t ridding itself of child abuse past | READER COMMENTARY

In explaining the decision of the Archdiocese of Baltimore to add 42 names to the list of persons accused of sexual abuse, a spokesperson...

Jun 29, 2023

Storied Baltimore Catholic family sues archdiocese, says sexual abuse led to death

BALTIMORE — For more than 60 years, the name Francis X. Gallagher has been linked prominently in Baltimore with the Catholic Church. The...

Jun 21, 2023

Revealed: New Orleans archdiocese concealed serial child molester for years

Ramon Antonio Vargas The second-oldest archdiocese in the US has handed over “voluminous documents” involving a retired Roman Catholic...

Jun 16, 2023

Another French bishop is accused of sexual abuse

Bishop Georges Colomb of La Rochelle headed the Paris Foreign Missions (MEP); is the 12th bishop to be accused of abuse in the past year.

Jun 10, 2023

Clergy sex abuse is the fault of the institution, not the religion.

Last year, the Southern Baptist Conference was forced to confront its own hidden history of sexual abuse, after the release of an...

Jun 9, 2023

Nothing really changed after Vatican II. But synodality may make a difference.

Pope Paul VI proclaims the last decrees of the Second Vatican Council, from his throne near papal altar under Bernini's bronze canopy

Jun 8, 2023

Syracuse University Professor Calls for Proper Treatment for Clergy Sex Abuse Victims

By Keith Kobland A Syracuse University professor who specializes in the treatment of children and adolescents who have experienced sexual...

Jun 7, 2023

Comeuppance or confession: a reckoning on clerical abuse?

With the global tide of clerical sex abuse scandals still surging in places as far apart as Poland, Ireland and the US state of Illinois,...

Jun 3, 2023

What the Latest Investigations Into Catholic Church Sex Abuse Mean

About 20 state attorneys general have mounted investigations that have cataloged decades of abuse but yielded few criminal prosecutions.