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In November 2018, Spalding released a list of 13 diocesan clerics with credible accusations of sexual abuse of minors who served in Tennessee from the 1940s through the 1990s. [ 5 ] Spalding in January 2024 removed Reverend Juan Carlos Garcia from his position at St. Philip Parish in Franklin, Tennessee , pending investigation.
The Diocese of Nashville (Latin: Dioecesis Nashvillensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in the central part of Tennessee in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Louisville .
However, after his retirement, when Sanders assumed the episcopate, partitioning did occur, from 1983 to 1985, resulting in the present three dioceses in Tennessee. Also, the Nashville office closed after Vander Horst stepped down (the Diocese opted not to elect another suffragan to staff it), and did not reopen until the division was completed ...
Oliver O'Grady – Irish former diocesan priest; laicized after being charged and convicted of the sexual abuse of at least 25 children in California from 1973–1990s Huub Oosterhuis – Dutch theologian, writer, poet, composer , and former Jesuit priest; left the order in 1969 and was pastor of an independent Catholic church and married a woman
Sep. 17—Boys from Joplin and Carthage and a boy and a girl from Neosho are among 11 alleged victims of past sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials cited in a lawsuit filed last week against ...
Fr. Frank Pavone, [208] National Director of Priests for Life. Fr. Ralph S. Pfau, [209] First priest to join Alcoholics Anonymous. Fr. Michael Pfleger, [210] Activist and subject of the book Radical Disciple – Father. Pfleger, St. Sabina Church, and the Fight for Social Justice.
A former priest who is a key witness in a sexual assault lawsuit against the Diocese of Knoxville has filed a complaint against one of the diocese’s attorneys, Knox News has learned.
The diocese removed three more priests in March 1993, including the Rev. Robert Vonnahmen, 62, founder and former longtime director of Camp Ondessonk, a summer camp in Ozark for Catholic children.