“I deeply regret the pain suffered by these victims,” Archbishop J. Peter Sartain said. REALLY? He doesn’t regret the rapist clergy or his predecessors who facilitated the rapists. Is anyone else sick to death with these non-apology apologies? This kind
Diocese of Winona explains why it’s paying priest who admitted abuse
Curious that they have to “follow the law” when it involves paying a priest rapist, but not paying the victims of the priest rapist.
By Jerome Christenson
The Diocese of Winona has offered a public explanation of why it continues
St. Louis Archbishop Didn’t Know Sex With Children Was a Crime
This person couldn’t tell the truth if his life depended upon it. How does he sleep at night? What a scandal!
By Erik Ortiz
The St. Louis archbishop embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal testified last month that he
Retired Archbishop Flynn doesn’t recall details from his handling of clergy abuse
By Madeleine Baran
Faced with tough questions under oath last month, former Twin Cities archbishop Harry Flynn said at least 134 times that he could not remember how he handled clergy sexual abuse cases during his 13-year tenure, according to
Torture the Little Children? The Catholic Church Says It’s Not Responsible
At a United Nations hearing the Vatican tries to turn the moral question of whether child abuse is torture into a legal debate about jurisdictions.
By Barbie Latza Nadeau
This may come as a huge surprise to many Catholics,
Child sex abuse royal commission: Cardinal George Pell gives testimony in Sydney
BY THOMAS ORITI
Australia’s most senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell, has told an inquiry into child sexual abuse he should have exercised greater oversight in the case of a victim who sued the Church.
The hearing room at the
Priest in Pike County sex case promoted after move to Paraguay
By Beth Brelje
A Roman Catholic priest who was accused of molesting boys in Shohola and Moscow, Pa., has been promoted to the No. 2 position in his diocese in Paraguay.
That is according to a database released this week,
Trial set in Yakima alleged sex abuse case
A federal judge in Yakima is scheduled on Monday hear a case involving a man who sued the Catholic Diocese of Yakima over alleged clergy sexual abuse when he was a teenager.
The man, known in court documents as John
Pope hits out at criticism of Church over sexual abuse
File Under: What an incredibly stupid thing to say, Francis.
Pope Francis has strongly defended the Roman Catholic Church’s record on tackling sexual abuse by priests.
In a rare interview with an Italian newspaper, the Pope said “no-one else
Catholic church will name 50+ priests who abused 100s of children in state
By Mike Dennison
Most of the 362 sex-abuse victims who sued the Catholic church of western Montana, saying they were abused years ago by priests and nuns, will get monetary damages from a settlement with the church.
But they’ll see