The Associated Press has recently concluded the largest-scale review of where former members of the Roman Catholic Church, who were removed from their positions due to varying degrees of sexual misconduct with children, have ended-up within our society. More than 5,000 Clergy Identified as Sexual Abusers of Children Since the systemic patterns of allowing and covering-up…

Terry Neary was a 13-year-old altar boy at St. Ethelreda’s parish in Chicago when he was sexually abused by Rev. William R. Leyhane in 1971. Although there were multiple instances of abuse, Neary would suppress his memories of the encounter until 1980, when as a student pursuing a doctorate at Loyola University Chicago, he shared…

A scathing report was released last week in Connecticut that details over 50 years of allegations of child sex abuse by clergy in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport. The report was the conclusion of a nearly year-long investigation led by retired state Supreme Court Justice, Robert Holzberg. In the report more than 70 clergymen were named…

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Bishop John Jenik has been asked to step aside while Cardinal Timothy Dolan, of New York, Archdiocese investigates allegations that he molested a minor several decades ago. According to CNN, the Bishop, now 74 years old, will be removed from his duties while the church looks into the claims. Jenik has served since 1978 at the…

Why Is This Necessary? At one time, when a claim of sexual abuse was made, the Catholic church simply covered up the problem by ignoring the parishioner, failing to report the priest to law enforcement or reassigning the priest. The Diocese’s goals were to prevent scandal and thereby protect itself. Even after the abuse scandal…

Former federal judge Barbara S. Jones will now be in charge of a review that examines how the Archdiocese of New York handles all sex abuse cases and whether they are following the protocols set out by the bishop’s conference in 2002. The review was ordered by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan in the hope of…

A grand jury report that had been delayed for months because of pressure from the Catholic Church has finally been ordered released by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The delay in the release was due to Catholic clergy who mounted legal challenges, because they had been named in the report. That prompted the state’s attorney general…

A former altar boy who sued his parish and the Archdiocese of New York after his former teacher sexually assaulted him as a child settled his case yesterday for an undisclosed sum. The settlement abruptly ended a trial that could have further embarrassed Archbishop Egan, who was in charge of the archdiocese’s schools when the…