The Gay Catholic Priests' Blog
By Tom Roberts
Roy Bourgeois, a former Maryknoll priest, has been disinvited from a Philadelphia-area fundraising event for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) because some members of the organization feared
By Dagmara Leszkowicz
The comments from Archbishop Jozef Michalik entrenched the view among some younger Poles that the church is out of touch with modern society and failing to
A Pennsylvania priest has been charged with molesting a teenage boy after police allegedly found him in a car on a college campus with a 15-year-old who was wearing no pants, according to a police criminal complaint filed Friday in
By Carey Gillam
A Kansas City Catholic priest was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Thursday on federal child pornography charges for taking sexually explicit photos of several young girls, including a 2-year-old.
Shawn Ratigan, 47, pleaded guilty in
The orders the Rev. Carlos Rodriguez got from his religious superiors after he confessed to molesting a 16-year-old boy just hours before were swift and decisive: Leave immediately. Check into a motel. Don’t tell anyone where you are going. Wait
Following his abrupt removal from his post by the Vatican, authorities in the Dominican Republic will look into allegations of child sex abuse against the papal envoy to the Caribbean country, the attorney general said Wednesday.
Attorney General Francisco Domínguez
By Cynthia Hubert
Some time during the next week or so, the Rev. Uriel Ojeda will leave Sacramento County’s Main Jail and join other inmates for a long bus ride to state prison.
Once a rising star in the Sacramento
By Victoria Kim and Harriet Ryan
Confidential personnel records from five Catholic religious orders were turned over to victims of sexual abuse Wednesday in the first wave of a court-ordered public disclosure expected to shed light on the role the
By Catherine Deveney
The Catholic church in Scotland faces a fresh sex-abuse crisis involving some of the country’s senior clerics. The Observer has seen