Lobbying funds have gone towards opposing bills that would extend statutes of limitations for child sex abuse cases or grant temporary windows to take action
The US Catholic church has poured millions of dollars over the past decade into opposing
Francis agrees to possibility of setting up commission to study women deacons in early Church
In an audience with female religious superiors, the Pope has agreed to back the establishment of a commission to study women deacons in the early Church. Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini proposed such a move back in the 90’s. The Italian
Priest guilty of trying to lure girl
14-year-old said a strange man told her to get into his car
A Catholic priest entered a guilty plea Friday, court records show, to trying to lure a 14-year-old girl into his car as she was walking
A long overdue quest for healing and justice
by Mike Newall
There is a bill before the state Senate that would do something real – something lasting – for survivors of sexual abuse. Something that would allow so many the opportunity for justice they have long been denied.
Gay man settles with Catholic school that pulled job offer
BOSTON — A Boston man who had a job offer from an all-girls Catholic high school rescinded after administrators learned that he was in a same-sex marriage has settled a lawsuit with the school.
The Boston Globe reports 45-year-old Matthew
Devout Catholic catalogues clergy’s crimes, offers victims comfort
Sylvia MacEachern’s website go-to gathering place for church abuse victims
By Simon Gardner
Mike Fitzgerald is a 60-year-old truck driver who grew up on a farm near Bancroft, Ont.
It’s with some trepidation that I ask him if we can
Priest removed for sex abuse works with teens at pregnancy center
Catholic priest removed in 2009 from two churches amid allegations he abused teen is now a director at Eastpointe center for teens that he cofounded
A Catholic priest removed from churches in metro Detroit after he
In Minnesota, hundreds take opportunity to sue over sex abuse
By Steve Karnowski
MINNEAPOLIS — It’s been nearly three years since Minnesota opened a path for lawsuits by victims of long-ago childhood sexual abuse.
In that time, more than 800 people have brought abuse claims against churches, the Boy Scouts,
Altoona-Johnstown abuse changed minds
Rep. Thomas Caltagirone was disgusted. The veteran Democrat from Reading had been one of the Catholic Church’s staunchest political allies for years, but by March he had hit a breaking point.
A state grand jury had exposed
Blair County man alleges more corruption in Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown
HOLLIDAYSBURG — It has been two months since the grand jury report into the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown was released.
One man said Bishop Mark Bartchak isn’t doing enough and there is more corruption in the diocese.
George … Continue reading