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The clergy–penitent privilege, clergy privilege, confessional privilege, priest–penitent privilege, pastor–penitent privilege, clergyman–communicant privilege, or ecclesiastical privilege, is a rule of evidence that forbids judicial inquiry into certain communications (spoken or otherwise) between clergy and members of their congregation. [1]
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 ...
Feb. 20—An archdiocese-maintained list of Catholic clergy members who have been deemed "credibly accused" of sexual abuse in Northern New Mexico parishes should also include others named by ...
However, the list only includes ordained Jesuits and does not include some accused people who were affiliated with the Jesuits. [22] Seven on the list taught at Cheverus High School in Portland, Maine. [22] All but 15 of the Roman Catholic priests on the list are dead, and all of the alleged abuse took place before 1997. [22]
[12] [11] The list would name over 300 accused "predator priests"; two dozen others were allowed to keep their names off the list. [12] The grand jury also charged two priests, John T. Sweeney of Greensburg and David Lee Poulson of Erie, [13] as a result of the report, as their reported abuse was within the statute of limitations. [14]
Apr. 10—The Diocese of Manchester has added three names to its online list of dozens of priests credibly accused of child sexual abuse going back to 1950, church officials announced this week.
This is a list, in chronological order, of present and past offences to which the Catholic Church has attached the penalty of excommunication; the list is not exhaustive. In most cases these were " automatic excommunications", wherein the violator who knowingly breaks the rule is considered automatically excommunicated from the church ...
Another priest, Father Michael Baker — one of the church's most prolific abusers — had been accused of molesting at least 40 boys during his decades in the priesthood. In 2007, Baker pleaded ...