abuse cover-up Archives

Pope prays for Poles who asked him to intervene in abuse cases

Jun 30, 2020

Pope Francis said he was praying for the hundreds of Catholics in Poland who turned to him directly, urging him to “rebuild our church” and criticizing the country’s bishops for hiding cases of abuse against minors.

By Carol Glatz

Pope names administrator alongside Polish bishop under investigation

Jun 25, 2020

Pope Francis has named an apostolic administrator for a Polish diocese that came under scrutiny in a documentary investigating the current bishop’s reported lack and delay of action in responding to accusations of the abuse of minors.

By Carol Glatz

Polish bishop lashes out at archbishop for reporting abuse cover-up to Vatican

Jun 17, 2020

A bishop at the center of a documentary on sex abuse in the Catholic Church in Poland has tried to defend himself, but has only generated more controversy.

By Paulina Guzik

Inquiry: Pell knew of abuse by Australian pedophile priest

May 7, 2020

Australian Cardinal George Pell knew a priest had been moved decades ago because he had sexually abused children, and should have removed an unstable priest in another parish who was also a suspected pedophile, a government inquiry concluded.

By Rod McGuirk

Saints emails, lawsuits could be buried in church bankruptcy

May 6, 2020

A bankruptcy filing by New Orleans’ Roman Catholic archdiocese freezes sexual abuse lawsuits and could help bury the details of alleged coverups of predator priests and thousands of internal emails documenting a behind-the-scenes alliance with the New Orleans Saints.

By Jim Mustian and Michael Rezendes

Monsignor in landmark church abuse case goes back on trial

Mar 16, 2020

Nearly two decades after the Catholic priest-abuse scandal exploded in the U.S. in 2002, only one church official has ever gone to prison over it: Monsignor William Lynn, the longtime secretary for clergy in the Philadelphia archdiocese. After an appeals court found his sweeping 2012 trial flawed and his conviction was twice overturned, Lynn, 69, is set to be retried Monday on a single child endangerment count.

By Maryclaire Dale