Gonzaga Archives

Pennsylvania priest sent to prison after guilty plea in abuse case

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Dec 28, 2018

A priest who once served in the Diocese of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to prison for sexually molesting a boy in the 1990s.

2 priests resign from Gonzaga after abusive clergy report

Associated Press, Church in the US
Dec 22, 2018

Two Jesuit priests have resigned as vice presidents of Gonzaga University amid questions about their handling of sexual abuse allegations against other clergy.

Jesuits promise no abusive priests will retire at Gonzaga

Associated Press, Church in the US
Dec 20, 2018

Jesuit leaders say no priest credibly accused of sexually abusing a minor will ever be sent to Gonzaga University after a report this week that at least 20 clergy members facing sexual abuse allegations were allowed to live out their lives at the campus in Washington state.

Jesuits sent abusive priests to retire on Gonzaga’s campus

Associated Press, Church in the US
Dec 17, 2018

For more than three decades, Cardinal Bea House on Gonzaga’s campus served as a retirement repository for at least 20 Jesuit priests accused of sexual misconduct that predominantly took place in small, isolated Alaska Native villages and on Indian reservations across the Northwest.

Jesuit aims to stem decline of faith with launch of catechetical website

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jul 17, 2018

Jesuit Father Robert J. Spitzer, former president of Gonzaga University, launched a cutting-edge catechetical website to confront the rising tide of unbelief spurred by an increasingly skeptical, science-saturated society.

Life
Mar 30, 2015

The Final Four of the NCAA tournament is now set, and in spite of valiant efforts on the part of the remaining Catholic schools, all were eliminated from the tournament over the weekend. After Xavier’s loss in the round of 16, two Catholic schools remained in the Elite 8. Notre