Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report Archives

Missouri investigation: 12 ex-clergy could face prosecution

Associated Press, Church in the US
Sep 13, 2019

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Friday referred 12 former priests for potential criminal prosecution but stopped short of recommending charges against any top church leaders, despite concluding the Catholic Church was involved in “long, sustained and far-reaching cover-up.”

Kansas City-St. Joseph diocese releases clergy names

Associated Press, Church in the US
Sep 7, 2019

he Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph on Friday released a list of 19 clerics who Bishop James Johnston Jr. said had substantiated allegations of sexual abuse of children against them.

New play tackles Church’s response to sexual abuse crisis

Church in the US
Sep 3, 2019

A new play wrestles with the complexities of the clergy abuse crisis.

Suits allege abuse, cover-up in Pennsylvania diocese

Associated Press, Church in the US
Aug 29, 2019

Frustrated by the Pennsylvania Legislature, four men are taking advantage of a shifting legal landscape to file suit against the Diocese of Scranton over decades-old allegations of clergy sexual abuse.

Bishops reflect on abuse crisis on anniversary of Pa. grand jury report

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Aug 15, 2019

On the anniversary of the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing alleged abuse by clergy and other church workers over several decades in six dioceses, bishops in those dioceses reflected on what the past year has wrought and described how their dioceses have acted to help past victims and prevent future victims.

State’s clergy abuse hotline got 1,900 calls over first year

Associated Press, Church in the US
Aug 6, 2019

Investigations remain underway after 1,862 calls were made to a clergy abuse hotline in the 12 months since a landmark grand jury report exposed decades of child abuse within Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses, the state attorney general said Tuesday.