A Melbourne Catholic priest has compared paedophile priests to adulterous women and said victims of sexual abuse would be “denied healing” because the “baying crowd” of media and lawyers don’t understand mercy, in statements published in a
St. John’s Abbey Hit With Two New Clergy Sex Abuse Cases
Fighting through tears on Tuesday, Todd Belrose recounted 35 years of pain resulting from alleged clergy sex abuse by Father Thomas Andert.
“Sadly, I just found out lately there are many more survivors, and as much as it breaks my … Continue reading
Windows closing for clergy sex abuse victims to sue Catholic church
Minnesota and Hawaii created windows for abuse victims to file lawsuit even after states’ statute of limitations closed – but their time will be up in April
Effort to reform child sex abuse crime laws clears a hurdle in House
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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
Catholic Archdiocese Vs. Insurer in Priest Sex Abuse Cases
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
Secret archive of paedophile crime kept by Catholic Church’s insurers
Victims of some of the worst sexual abuse perpetrated by the Catholic Church are being denied access to a vast archive of clergy crime, as the church continues to ensure the offending is kept secret, despite the
Church abuse survivor speaks out: ‘my parents trusted I was safe and I wasn’t’
Eight women who were molested by a local priest as children have settled a lawsuit with the Seattle Archdiocese for $9.1 million.
The eight cases happened between 1968 and 1975, but attorneys say there’s the