Citing the sex-abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia and at Pennsylvania State University, the Orthodox Church in America has dismissed its presiding archbishop for failing to remove a priest who had raped a woman and been jailed
NJ Priest Arrested in Alleged Sex Abuse of Mom, Child
Prosecutors in Ocean County have charged a Catholic priest for allegedly making inappropriate sexual contact with a mother and her child.
Marukudiyil C. Velan, known as “Father Chris” by his parishioners at the Visitation Roman Catholic Church in Brick Township,
Diocese seeks relief from clergy sex abuse verdict
The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay says its First Amendment rights protect it from liability in a civil lawsuit filed by two childhood victims of clergy sex abuse.
Brothers Todd and Troy Merryfield were awarded $700,000 in May by an
Man who attacked priest in revenge is not guilty of felonies
William Lynch, who beat the Catholic priest he said molested him as a child, is acquitted on elder abuse and felony assault charges. He may be retried on a misdemeanor assault charge.
SAN JOSE — A jury has found a
Monk suspected in killings at Dutch psychiatric hospital in 1950s
Thirty-seven boys who died in the early 1950s in a Dutch psychiatric hospital run by the Catholic Church were probably killed by a monk in charge of their care, prosecutors said on Thursday.
It was the latest in a string
Jury awards Catholic school sex-abuse victim $8M
SEATTLE — A King County jury has awarded $8 million to a victim of sexual abuse at a Seattle Catholic school. The sum is believed to be the largest ever against the Catholic Church in Washington state.
The jury found
Judge denies Philadelphia priest’s bid for house arrest
Monsignor William Lynn, the first senior U.S. Roman Catholic Church official to be convicted of covering up child sex abuse, was sent back to prison on Thursday after a judge rejected his bid for house arrest.
Family members sobbed in
Police launch child porn investigation at Connecticut church
Connecticut state police officers are investigating the discovery of possible child porn at a Roman Catholic church in Waterford.
WFSB-TV reports that police declined to provide details, saying only that a “criminal investigation” is in progress after computers were reportedly
Woman Says ‘Exorcist’ Priest Abused Her
A Roman Catholic priest “kissed (a woman) on all parts of her body” during a so-called “exorcism” session, and “frequently explained full, passionate kisses as ‘blowing the Holy Spirit into’ her,” the woman claims in court.
Jane Doe sued the
Gerald T. Slevin: The Jury Has Spoken! Will the Pope Now Speak?
In Philadelphia today, the jury in the Philadelphia abuse trial found Msgr. William Lynn guilty of child endangerment. Brian Roewe reports on this story at National Catholic Reporter. Jerry Slevin, a Harvard-trained lawyer who has closely followed this trial, has