Joel Wright, 23, detained at San Diego airport while carrying baby clothes and $2,000 in cash
A former student priest has been arrested on suspicion of trying to pay to rape a baby and a young girl,
Irish priest punished by Florida bishop for informing on pedophile colleague
By Cathy Hayes
A priest, originally from County Tyrone and now
Church child abuse scandals ‘tip of iceberg’ say real-life stars of Oscar-tipped film
By Fiachra Gibbons
The child abuse scandals plaguing the Catholic Church are only the tip of the iceberg, the journalists who exposed one of the hierarchy’s biggest cover-ups said Wednesday. Walter Robinson and Mike Rezendes, who won the Pulitzer Prize
Archdiocese of Seattle publishes names of child-sex abusers
The Archdiocese of Seattle has published a list of 77 child-sex abusers who served or lived in Western Washington over the past several decades.
Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain on Friday apologized for the actions by clergy and religious brothers
What Pope Benedict Knew About Abuse in the Catholic Church
The election of Pope Francis, in 2013, had the effect, among other things, of displacing the painful story of priestly sexual abuse that had dominated public awareness of the Church during much of the eight-year papacy of
Italian bishop protected paedophile priest: Report
An Italian bishop aided and abetted a paedophile priest, telling him to avoid the police and shrugging off warnings the prelate was meeting teenage boys on Grindr, Italian media reported on Sunday (Dec 20).
Priest Antonello Tropea, 44, was arrested
Girls abused by clergy members, and others, are focus of new team
Woman’s suit against Lutheran youth pastor is first in an effort to get more to step forward.
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Minnesota diocese files for bankruptcy after sex abuse award
By JEFF BAENEN
The Diocese of Duluth, a sprawling but sparsely populated Roman Catholic diocese in northeastern Minnesota, filed an emergency petition for federal bankruptcy protection Monday after a jury found it partially responsible for millions of dollars awarded in
St. John’s Abbey monk accused of abuse reports 200 sexual encounters
‘Hippie ex-priest’ put ‘Spotlight’ on sexual abuse
Richard Sipe’s studies of celibacy helped uncover the Catholic Church’s scandal
In the new movie “Spotlight,” a character describes