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A 38-year-old priest who worked in Long Beach and Oxnard was arrested this week on suspicion of possessing hundreds of images and videos depicting child sexual abuse.
A renowned Detroit priest who hosts a popular exorcism podcast was busted on battery charges for allegedly snatching a teenage girl's hair and pretending to floss with it inside an Illinois church.
Catholic News Service gave it 44.8%, and the Catholic News Agency gave it 33.3%. Among the religion blogs published by high-circulation U.S. newspapers, those operated by USA Today and The Washington Post contained the most entries on the clergy abuse scandal - a total of 12 each during the six weeks studied.
He was later accused of taking too little action in handling Geoghan, a Boston priest who allegedly molested over 130 children during his ministry. [11] In 1990, after receiving complaints from an alleged victim, he removed one priest from duty and sent him to treatment, only for the same priest to later serve as a hospital chaplain. [12]
In the words of the Catholic News Agency: "The journalists said that Wojtyla 'made all the necessary decisions at that moment: the quick removal of the priest from the parish, the suspension until the matter was resolved, and the obligation to live in a monastery,' where civil authorities then arrested him." Litka and Krzyżak note that one of ...
— A Michigan priest had his license revoked by the Anglican Catholic Church after he made a gesture that "many have interpreted as a pro-Nazi salute" while speaking at the National Pro-Life ...
Bishop Kurt Krenn resigned from his post in 2004 after there was a scandal concerning child pornography allegedly being downloaded by a student at the seminary. [5] [6] Up to 40,000 photos and an undisclosed number of films, including child pornography, were found on the computer of one of the seminarians, but Krenn earlier angered many by calling the images a "childish prank".
In the late 1940s, the American priest Gerald Fitzgerald founded the Congregation of the Servants of the Paraclete, a religious order that treats Roman Catholic priests who struggle with personal difficulties such as substance abuse and sexual misconduct. In a series of letters and reports to high-ranking Catholic leaders starting in the 1950s ...