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The sexual abuse scandal in the Chicago archdiocese in the late 20th and early 21st century is a major chapter in the series of Catholic sex abuse cases in the United States and Ireland. A 2023 report by the Illinois Attorney General found that more than 450 Catholic clergy in Illinois abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950.
Of the priests who were accused of sexual abuse, 59% were accused of a single allegation. 41% of the priests were the subject of more than one allegation. Just under 3% of the priests were the subject of ten or more allegations. The 149 priests who had more than 10 allegations against them accounted for 2,960 of the total number of allegations ...
The Archdiocese of Chicago has settled sex abuse claims for $800,000 against five clergymen, including the Rev. George Clements, a well-known Catholic priest and civil rights activist who died in ...
A trailblazing Black priest George Clements, a civil rights hero to many African American Catholics, was accused of being an alleged sexual abuser of a young boy
George Harold Clements (January 26, 1932 – November 25, 2019) was a Black Catholic priest who, in 1981, became the first Catholic priest in the Chicago area to adopt a child. [2] He was also instrumental in the Black Catholic Movement , which sought to establish African-American culture in the liturgical and organizational life of the ...
Nationally known activist Chicago priest the Rev. Michael Pfleger has been asked to step aside due to an allegation of sexual abuse that occurred decades ago, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of ...
In 2006, Abramowicz was accused in a lawsuit against the archdiocese of ignoring a sexual abuse accusation against a priest. The plaintiff claimed that he was sexually abused on several occasions as a teenager by Czeslaw Przybylo, a priest at Five Holy Martyrs Parish in Chicago during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
A Catholic priest who gained national fame as an activist has been asked to step away from his ministry while allegations that he sexually abused a minor decades ago are investigated. The ...