Clerical Abuse Archives - Page 6 of 7

Prosecutors: Drugs, child porn found in Boise priest’s home
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Feb 6, 2018
Prosecutors say hundreds of child pornography images as well as marijuana, LSD and ecstasy were discovered in the home of a retired priest from St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Boise.
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Judge denies Twin Cities archdiocese bankruptcy plans
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Dec 29, 2017
A bankruptcy judge denied both the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’s reorganization plan and a competing plan submitted by a creditors’ committee before ordering all sides back into negotiations.
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Hurting in the Church: An honest look at human realities
- Interviews
- Apr 24, 2017
In his new book ‘Hurting in the Church: A Way Forward for Wounded Catholics,’ Father Thomas Berg says he wants priests to listen to the experiences of hurting Catholics. He says the book is an invitation to a kind of Church-wide self-examination: Where have we failed in charity? Why is our day-to-day, interpersonal living of that Christ-like gift of self, agape-love, so languid at times, so passive, so anemic?
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Ex-priest gets 9 months in prison in guns-explosives case

A former priest who had been accused of sexually assaulting a minor at one time, now faces jail time for helping a teenager buy ammunition and build a pipe bomb. This story adds a very unusual and unexpected twist to the ongoing saga of clerical scandal.

NY archdiocese seeks $100M mortgage to pay sex abuse claims

U.S. Catholic leaders have grappled with a clergy sexual abuse crisis since 2002. Nationwide, the church has paid nearly $4 billion in settlements since 1950, more than 6,500 clergy members have been accused of abuse and hundreds have been removed from church work.

Pope kicks off new year renewing ‘zero tolerance’ policy on abuse

“It is a sin that shames us. Persons responsible for the protection of those children destroyed their dignity. We regret this deeply and we beg forgiveness,” Pope Francis wrote in a letter sent to bishops around the world for the feast of the Holy Innocents.