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A Catholic priest has been arrested for allegedly forcibly touching a woman inside a church kitchen in a Long Island diocese ...
Belleville’s scandal prompted the diocese to create a review board to investigate sexual-abuse allegations in 1993, a year after the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago took similar action.
The Harrisburg Diocese on Wednesday became the latest member of the worldwide Catholic Church to face financial reckoning for misdeeds involving child sexual abuse. Speaking before members of the ...
A state Supreme Court ruling that favors Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown is blow to clergy abuse ... which has already spent more than $31 million related to the clergy sex abuse scandal, ...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, facing potentially huge judgments for past sexual abuse by its priests and other ministers, filed for bankruptcy protection Thursday ...
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Oakland said he filed for bankruptcy to stabilize the church’s finances and offer “just compensation” in sex-abuse cases.
Deacon Steve Schumer, who steered Catholic Charities of Buffalo through the Covid-19 pandemic and fallout from the Buffalo ...
The grand jury report identified 45 former priests from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg among the 301 named as abusers throughout the state. This diocese covers 15 counties, 89 parishes ...
Over the past three decades, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield has endured its own saga amid the scourge of the clergy abuse scandal that’s engulfed the Catholic Church since the 1990s ...
The opaque finances that enable the Catholic Church’s abuse scandal June 9, 2019 More than 6 years ago Former bishop Michael J. Bransfield of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown has offered details on the cost of the clergy abuse scandal. The latest edition of the diocese’s official publication says the scandal has cost it ...
It cements the permanent abdication of societal influence by the Catholic Church (“Catholic archdiocese’s final plan will cut Baltimore parishes from 61 to 23,” May 22).