An elderly widow claims in court that a Catholic priest defrauded her of $284,000 after her husband died.
Michalena Jones, 79, sued The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles and Father Peter Valdez, in Superior Court.
Jones claims that Valdez
Catholic priest faces excommunication after launching new parish
A Milwaukee-area Catholic priest sanctioned this year for indirectly violating the seal of the confessional now faces excommunication after launching a new parish with a breakaway diocese a few miles away.
Father David Verhasselt, once a popular priest at St.
N.J. man publishes book on abuse by priests in the Diocese of Trenton
It took Bruce Novozinsky more than seven years and 14,000 pages of letters, memos, manuscripts and interviews to produce his book on the decades of sexual abuse allegedly covered up by the powers that be in the Roman Catholic Church.
“An unholy mess”
That’s what an in-depth, investigative piece in the Economist called the state of finances in the Catholic Church in America: an unholy mess.
It’s hard to decide what is most horrifying in this report of financial mismanagement, which looks at
Fort Worth Roman Catholic Diocese settles sexual abuse case
A man who accused disgraced priest Philip Magaldi of sexual abuse settled his claim Tuesday with the Fort Worth Roman Catholic Diocese, according to a news release.
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed at the man’s request, the diocese
Diocese offers loan to priest accused in sex case
The Archdiocese of Portland has offered an open-ended loan to the Rev. Angel Armando Perez to cover legal fees as he fights an accusation that he fondled a 12-year-old boy.
Archbishop John G. Vlazny approved the loan to Perez this
I’ll protect you!
… Seattle marchers show support for activist nuns
Over the years, Patricia Patterson thought about joining protest marches in support of women’s rights or against war. But the cause that finally got her to take to the streets was nuns.
“It baffles me that a group of women
Dearborn Sacred Heart pastor suspended after allegedly driving drunk and naked
The Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit has indefinitely suspended the pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Dearborn after he was arrested last week on suspicion of drunken driving.
According to the archdiocese, the Rev. Peter Petroske was not wearing any clothes
Tom Rastrelli: Priests who lie; the dilemma of sexual orientation and the priesthood
People don’t expect their priests and bishops to lie, but as Michelangelo Signorile’s recent post illustrated, clerics do lie. Some even make a virtue of it. I know this from experience, for I was ordained a Catholic priest on a