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Catholic Bishop Rodrigo Aguilar Martínez, center left, and Cardinal Felipe Arizmendi take part in a Mass in memory of slain Catholic priest and activist Marcelo Pérez at the main plaza in San ...
A Washington church service was interrupted on Tuesday night as a man stormed the altar, attempting to punch a reverend. Livestream footage shows the moment when Joshua James Sommers ran toward ...
A Boston-area Catholic priest who pushed for the ouster of the powerful Bernard Cardinal Law in a church abuse scandal now faces his own allegations of sexual misconduct, a new lawsuit claims.
In a May 2002 interview with the Italian Catholic publication, 30 Giorni, Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga claimed that Jews influenced the Boston Globe to exploit the recent controversy regarding sexual abuse by Catholic priests in order to divert attention from the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. [12]
The Archdiocese of Boston sex abuse scandal was part of a series of Catholic Church sexual abuse cases in the United States that revealed widespread crimes in the American Catholic Church. In early 2002, The Boston Globe published results of an investigation that led to the criminal prosecutions of five Roman Catholic priests and thrust the ...
Hickey, the first priest convicted in a sexual-abuse scandal, [citation needed] died in 1992. In February 2009, the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador ruled that the Archdiocese of St. John's was "vicariously liable" for the sexual abuse of eight former altar boys by Hickey. [3] [better source needed]
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 ...
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.