Tag: ProPublica

Madonnina
Opinion

20 years after Boston Globe’s ‘Spotlight,’ we need a national database of accused clergy

20 Years After ‘Spotlight’ Title: 20 years after Boston Globe’s ‘Spotlight,’ we need a national database of accused clergy Author: Barbara Thorp Publisher: NCR Online Date: 04JAN2022 In the United States, the terrible truth that Catholic clergy have sexually violated children has been known publicly now for at least 36 years. For this truth-telling, we

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Global Mapping

Credibly Accused

Credibly Accused Catholic Clergy Title: Credibly Accused Authors: Ellis Simani, Ken Schwencke, Katie Zavadski, Lexi Churchill Publisher: ProPublica Date: 28JAN2020 Search lists of U.S. Catholic clergy that have been deemed credibly accused of sexual abuse or misconduct. The Catholic Church has not released a public list of clergy members who have been credibly accused of

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Madonnina
Opinion

Explainer: What the church has done to fight clergy sex abuse since 2018’s ‘summer of shame’

Dulle Clergy Sex Abuse Title: Explainer: What the church has done to fight clergy sex abuse since 2018’s ‘summer of shame’ Author: Colleen Dulle Publisher: America Magazine Date: 14AUG2020 It has been two years since the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report was published on Aug. 14, 2018, documenting in at times disturbing detail at least 1,000 cases of

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News

New accuser of Theodore McCarrick alleges the ex-cardinal orchestrated abuse involving other clerics

New accuser Theodore McCarrick Title: New accuser of Theodore McCarrick alleges the ex-cardinal orchestrated abuse involving other clerics Author: Michelle Boorstein Publisher: The Washington Post Date:  22JUL2020 Ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, already laicized and the subject of a Vatican investigation, is accused in a newly filed lawsuit of orchestrating the abuse of minor boys by multiple

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