by Carla Hinton
A Roman Catholic leader said Monday he is “assessing the situation” regarding a Lawton priest who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor involving a young woman.
The Most Rev. Paul S. Coakley, archbishop of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma
Catholic Diocese of Yakima won’t list names of abusers on website
By Jane Gargas
The Lay Advisory Board of the Catholic Diocese of Yakima will not be listing the names of local clergy on its website who have had credible claims of sexual abuse leveled against them.
The board last month
Outspoken former Stoughton, Bridgewater priest defrocked
In the early days of the clergy sex abuse scandal, the Rev. Thomas Maguire said then-Cardinal Bernard Law should resign. Now Maguire, who served in Stoughton and Bridgewater among his eight posts, has been defrocked himself.
By Lane Lambert
Soon
Priest Jeyapaul’s victim Megan speaks to TNM: Church ignores sex crimes, or worse, hides them
Reinstating Jeyapaul back into priesthood is a disservice and a danger to children in India.’
On Tuesday, Megan Peterson, a US citizen and a victim of sexual assault at the hands of church priest Joseph Jeyapaul, filed
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
EXCLUSIVE: The final insult – ‘child molester’ Catholic priest who committed suicide to evade justice said it was a ‘gift’ to his victims – after a life ‘serving others’
- Father Virgilio Elizondo, 80, shot himself in the head after he was accused of molesting a young boy
- Notre Dame professor was leading Catholic intellectual but faced ruin before he shot himself in the head at San Antonio, Texas, home
Christian School Principal Jailed for Child Rape
By Katie Zavadski
The principal of a tiny Seventh-day Adventist school in Washington state has been arrested for allegedly molesting and abusing two young girls.
The principal of a tiny Christian school in a small Washington town has been charged
Hospital Funds Diverted to Cardinal’s Villa
A top Vatican cardinal is defending a glitzy renovation to his private apartments, apparently funded by money meant for a children’s hospital.
It is hard to imagine two men more different than frugal Pope Francis