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On March 3, 2017, the Diocese of New Ulm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection following numerous lawsuits surrounding sex abuse by Catholic clergy in the area. [49] New Ulm follows the Duluth Diocese and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, thus making Minnesota the first state in the United States of America to have three Roman ...
The Catholic Church responded to the scandal at three levels: the diocesan level, the episcopal conference level and the Vatican. Responses to the scandal proceeded at all three levels in parallel with the higher levels becoming progressively more involved as the gravity of the problem became more apparent.
The full report was officially released by the German Catholic Church on 25 September, and included an apology by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Bishop of Munich and Freising and head of the German Catholic Bishops' Conference, and other German bishops. [94] [95] [93] [96] The incidents were reported to have happened between the years 1946 and 2014. [93]
The ruling by state District Judge J.R. Flores does not stop the state's investigation into Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, which provides temporary housing for as many as 2,000 women ...
A man who says he was sexually abused as a boy by a priest in New Mexico in the 1960s sued the church and diocese this week, the latest case to surface in the state as the Roman Catholic Church ...
The pink slips are going to 18 staffers, or about 4% of the work force involved in the archdiocese’s administration, and will save more than $1.5 million as officials focus more resources on ...
Of the Catholic sexual abuse cases in Latin America, the most widely known is the sexual scandal of Father Marcial Maciel, the founder of the Legion of Christ, a Roman Catholic congregation. [41] The revelations took place after the Legion spent more than a decade denying allegations and criticizing the victims who claimed abuse.
A Delaware native reflects on his youth in the Catholic Church and draws connections from the 1960s to today's abuse scandal.