Final US Jesuit group releases names of accused abusers
RNS The Northeast province of the Society of Jesus has released the names of 50 men it says have been credibly accused of child sex abuse since 1950. With the report’s release on Tuesday, following others from the Catholic order’s US provinces in recent months, all Jesuit provinces in the United States have now unveiled lists of […]
New abuse report in hand, US Catholics and attorneys general map next moves
RNS When Pennsylvania officials unveiled a report this week detailing accusations that Catholic priests had sexually abused more than 1,000 children since the 1940s and that church officials shielded the abusers, the public outcry was swift. Some compared the document to The Boston Globe’s 2002 “Spotlight” investigation, which unearthed comparably horrifying allegations in Massachusetts. But two days […]