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Dec 20, 2024
'You’ll Go to Hell if You Tell Anyone': Survivors Recount Childhood Sexual Abuse at Oakland Diocese
Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman A man, identified as Speaker 7, choked back tears as he recounted being molested about four decades ago, when he...
Dec 20, 2024
Ohio lawmakers pass child sex abuse reforms prompted by Father Drew rape case
Jennifer Edwards Baker CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Ohio lawmakers are reforming child sex abuse laws as a result of the case of Geoff Drew, who...
Dec 19, 2024
AG Nessel Releases Report of Alleged Abuse at Diocese of Lansing
LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel today announced the release of a report (PDF) by the Department of Attorney General...
Dec 19, 2024
These priests molested kids in Wisconsin and elsewhere. Why aren't they on the Archdiocese's list of abusers?
Laura Schulte, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Robert Herguth, Chicago Sun-Times If the Archdiocese of Milwaukee embraced the same level of...
Dec 19, 2024
‘Longing for healing’: Survivors of clergy abuse and non-offending priests come together
By Mackenzie Krumme Two years ago, Sally dropped a letter in the mail, never expecting a response. Three pages long and handwritten, it...
Dec 19, 2024
Herman Law Achieves Key Ruling in Child Sexual Abuse Cases Against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn
Provided by PR Newswire Herman Law Achieves Key Ruling in Child Sexual Abuse Cases Against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn...
Dec 19, 2024
20 years of abuse settlements for US Catholic dioceses exceeds $5 billion total
By Gina Christian (OSV News) — The Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ $880 million abuse claims settlement, announced Oct. 16, brings the total...
Dec 4, 2024
Australian ambassador: Clergy abuse an 'existential threat' for Catholic Church
Christopher White Decades of clergy sex abuse scandals are an "existential threat" to the Catholic Church and can only be remedied...
Dec 4, 2024
Vatican to consider classifying 'spiritual abuse' as new Catholic crime
Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Pope Francis has asked the Vatican to study whether the Catholic Church should classify...
Nov 13, 2024
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...
Nov 12, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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, 2024
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...
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