By Peter Smith
The day began with a 30-year-old witness describing how Franciscan Brother Stephen Baker befriended him and his family and repeatedly molested him from his early teens.
But even as prosecutors laid out their case involving the late
Catholic priest compares paedophile priests to adulterous women
A Melbourne Catholic priest has compared paedophile priests to adulterous women and said victims of sexual abuse would be “denied healing” because the “baying crowd” of media and lawyers don’t understand mercy, in statements published in a
CNS Director Tony Spence Forced Out
by Kevin Clarke
Tony Spence has stepped down from his position as Director and Editor in Chief of Catholic News
St. John’s Abbey Hit With Two New Clergy Sex Abuse Cases
Fighting through tears on Tuesday, Todd Belrose recounted 35 years of pain resulting from alleged clergy sex abuse by Father Thomas Andert.
“Sadly, I just found out lately there are many more survivors, and as much as it breaks my … Continue reading
Windows closing for clergy sex abuse victims to sue Catholic church
Minnesota and Hawaii created windows for abuse victims to file lawsuit even after states’ statute of limitations closed – but their time will be up in April
Effort to reform child sex abuse crime laws clears a hurdle in House
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Slowik: Leniency for alleged sex abusers like Hastert denies justice to victims
By Ted Slowik
I have to choose my words carefully, because Hastert isn’t charged with sexually abusing children, and he hasn’t admitted to it. As part of a plea deal, he’s pleaded guilty to a bank structuring charge for withdrawing
As Pennsylvania confronts clergy sex abuse, victims and lawmakers act
By Laurie Goodstein
Nearly 15 years after Boston suffered through a clergy abuse scandal dramatized in the movie “Spotlight,’’ Pennsylvania is going through its own painful reckoning.
From the state Capitol in Harrisburg to kitchens in railroad towns, people say
Victim raped by upstate priest wants N.Y. to fix sex abuse statute
Kevin Braney went through hell in the basement of a church rectory.
Braney says he was a devout 15-year-old altar boy when Msgr. Charles Eckermann first raped him in a rectory storage room at St. Ann’s Church