David Bidney trusted the man he knew as “Father Jerry” at St. Odilia Catholic parish in Shoreview. He was 10 years old when the Rev. Gerald Funcheon started sexually abusing him in the early 1970s, he said Thursday, bribing him with ice cream from the Dairy Queen on Lexington Avenue and then molesting him
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A St. Paul attorney who for years has defended victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy today is announcing settlements in nine cases for $1.7 million on behalf of his clients.
The U.S. attorney in Los Angeles has launched a federal grand jury investigation into Cardinal Roger M. Mahony in connection with his response to the molestation of children by priests in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the case.
The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has admitted that one of its former priests, Harry Monroe, was a child molester
A New Yorker serving in the U.S. Coast Guard filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming he was molested repeatedly by a counselor at a popular Catskills summer camp.
The Furor Over Weakland?s Bronze
by Bruce Murphy | Tuesday 1/12/2010
Is there any organization in town that is more clueless about public relations than the Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese?
In the midst of what should have been a celebration, the installation of new Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki, the archdiocese is instead engulfed in controversy over whether it should have involved former Archbishop Rembert Weakland in the ceremony and whether a bronze image celebrating his tenure is inappropriate.
The criticism has been led by Peter Isely, the implacable director of the Midwe
A Plover, Wis., woman has sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Crosse, claiming it allowed a priest to remain active for nearly four decades despite knowing he had a history of molesting children.
A new $1,375,000 settlement has been made in a child sexual abuse case involving a Catholic priest who worked in the Chicago archdiocese and now works as a pastor at Shrine of Christ the King in Winfield (Du Page County).
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The lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay filed by two sexual-abuse victims survived a critical test Monday in Outagamie County Circuit Court.
Three Catholic priests with ties to Maryland are among the nation’s most dangerous sexual predators, according to a list released Tuesday by a group of clergy sex abuse victims demanding greater accountability from the Catholic Church.
A Winnebago County jury will decide next month whether a Catholic priest who sexually assaulted two boys in the 1980s meets the criteria to be classified as a sexually violent person and remain in custody indefinitely.
Donald McGuire sat hunched in his wheelchair in a federal courtroom Friday with his face locked in a frown, a shell of the charismatic priest who traveled the world to hold religious retreats and advise Mother Teresa.
For several months, Cardinal Francis George appeared to have learned from his failures in dealing with the child sex abuse scandal afflicting the Archdiocese of Chicago.
An attorney for the Franciscan Sisters adamantly denied the allegations, saying that the $400,000 payment was agreed upon to avoid protracted litigation.