Philadelphia Archives

Catholic school worker charged with sex assault of student

Associated Press, Church in the US
Jun 6, 2019

Police say a worker at a suburban Philadelphia Roman Catholic high school has been charged with sexually assaulting a student.

Ukrainian Catholics set for enthronement of new leader in Philadelphia

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 2, 2019

An estimated 50 bishops will be present June 4 in Philadelphia for the enthronement of Metropolitan-Archbishop Borys Gudziak as head of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.

U.S. Ukrainian Catholic bishops meet with new metropolitan-archbishop

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Mar 9, 2019

On March 5 and 6, the Ukrainian Catholic bishops of the United States met and prayed with Metropolitan-Archbishop Borys Gudziak in Philadelphia and discussed pastoral plans for their eparchies for 2019 and 2020.

Chancery staff welcomes new Ukrainian Catholic metropolitan-archbishop

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Mar 5, 2019

While a graceful cascade of white snowflakes gently fell to the ground outside the chancery March 1, the staff of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia welcomed the new Metropolitan-Archbishop Borys Gudziak to the archeparchy’s pastoral center.

Joint newspaper report examines bishops’ responses to abuse allegations

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Nov 5, 2018

The Boston Globe and the Philadelphia Inquirer newspapers teamed up for an article published in both daily papers Nov. 4 that examined ways it said the U.S. bishops have failed to police themselves even since their 2002 gathering in Dallas about clergy sex abuse when they “promised that the church’s days of concealment and inaction were over.”

Feds open clergy abuse probe in Pennsylvania

Associated Press, Church in the US
Oct 18, 2018

The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation of child sexual abuse inside the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania, using subpoenas to demand confidential files and testimony from church leaders, according to two people familiar with the probe.