A New Jersey Catholic diocese has agreed to pay $180 million to settle clergy sexual abuse claims involving hundreds of survivors, closing a long and contentious chapter in New Jersey’s reckoning with church abuse. Bishop Joseph Williams, who serves the…[Continue Reading...]
After almost six years, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse is paying survivors of clergy sexual abuse $176 million and will exit bankruptcy. A judge approved the final decree that will lead to payments from a Victims Trust Fund that…[Continue Reading...]
The New Orleans Archdiocese will pay at least $230 million to hundreds of survivors of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement approved by a federal judge on Monday. The settlement follows years of negotiations and includes policies intended to prevent…[Continue Reading...]
MORRISTOWN, NJ — The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) is demanding transparency from Delbarton School in Morristown and its affiliates, following troubling allegations of clergy sexual abuse. SNAP specifically is demanding that Auxiliary Bishop Elias R. Lorenzo,…[Continue Reading...]
Pedro Arrupe, the late, former worldwide leader of the Jesuit religious order and a candidate for Catholic sainthood, acknowledged in records produced as part of a New Orleans court case that he was warned about how one of the group’s…[Continue Reading...]
NESBIT, Miss. - Authorities arrested a priest in training in DeSoto County as part of a child exploitation operation, according to DeSoto County Sheriff Thomas Tuggle. Tuggle said detectives with the department's Internet Crimes Against Children Division executed a search…[Continue Reading...]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey can have a grand jury examine allegations of clergy sexually abusing children, the state’s Supreme Court ruled Monday, after a Catholic diocese that had tried for years to block such proceedings recently reversed course.…[Continue Reading...]
NEW ORLEANS — The Archdiocese of New Orleans agreed to pay nearly $180 million to victims of clergy sexual abuse under a settlement announced Wednesday, the latest in a string of settlements by the Catholic Church. The archdiocese, its parishes…[Continue Reading...]
The Diocese of Buffalo, New York, will pay out a massive $150 million sum as part of a settlement with victims of clergy sexual abuse there. The diocese said in a press release that the diocese itself, along with parishes…[Continue Reading...]
Theodore McCarrick, the disgraced former Newark archbishop and cardinal who was cast out of the ministry after decades-old sexual abuse allegations involving young men and boys ultimately came to light — sparking a reckoning in the Catholic church and a…[Continue Reading...]
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