Report: 38 clergymen connected to Diocese of Saginaw accused of sexual misconduct

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel released a report Thursday detailing allegations of sexual misconduct by 38 clergymen connected to the Diocese of Saginaw...

 https://www.wcmu.org/local-regional-news/2026-06-25/report-38-clergymen-connected-to-diocese-of-saginaw-accused-of-sexual-misconduct

 

Report names 51 priests accused of abuse in Grand Rapids Catholic diocese

The report is the fifth in a seven-part series on allegations of abuse in each of the six Catholic dioceses in Michigan and the Archdiocese of Detroit...

https://www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-justice-legal-system/2025-12-16/report-names-51-priests-accused-of-abuse-in-grand-rapids-catholic-diocese 

 

Should priests be required to report child abuse they learn about in confession

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dBE3E68p4uY

 

Capturing Christianity’s Demon Video - A Complete Takedown!

Examining claims of exorcisms by Catholic priests…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DEQ7j6PGdg 

‘A supermarket for sexual predators’: abuse scandal at elite boarding school shakes France

"My mother wanted to get me away from Bordeaux so we begged the Bétharram school principal for a place. To persuade him, I told him about the abuse I'd endured, including the horrible detail that my attacker always handed me an envelope containing 50 French francs [the equivalent of €7, or £6]." 

Six months after Boris was admitted to Bétharram, the same school principal, Pierre Silviet-Carricart, a priest, called him into his office on his 14th birthday and sexually assaulted him, he said. "Then he handed me an envelope containing 50 francs," Boris said. "The cynicism and cruelty of that …"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/01/abuse-scandal-boarding-school-france-betharram

 

Trump's Justice Department and the Catholic Church are fighting a law that will protect children

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw6FElKqJEE

 

Washington lawmaker defends no-compromise bill making priests mandated reporters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vir2SFBBkuc

 

Montana Democrats want to require priests to report confessions of child abuse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5MAy_rl4gw

 

America’s New Catholic Priests: Young, Confident and Conservative - The New York Times

Priests ordained since 2010 "are clearly the most conservative cohort of priests we've seen in a long time," said Brad Vermurlen, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, who has studied the rightward shift of the American priesthood. Surveys tracking the opinions of priests have found that, starting in the 1980s, each new wave of priests in the United States is noticeably more conservative than the one before it, Dr. Vermurlen said...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/us/catholic-priests-conservative-politics.html

Baltimore Catholic archdiocese files for bankruptcy as clergy abuse victims prepare suits - The Washington Post

The move blocks lawsuits allowed under a new state law that takes effect Sunday. Child sexual abuse survivors seeking damages will now have to file a claim through the bankruptcy case…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2023/09/29/catholic-bankruptcy-baltimore/

Alternative Catholic synod to push case for ordination of women priests

"Right now we're at a tipping point: it's clear that women are doing the work of priesthood, and they want to be recognised as priests."…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/24/alternative-catholic-synod-to-push-case-for-ordination-of-women-priests

300 New Orleans priests were reported for sexual abuse - only 25% are on archdiocese’s credibly accused list | Catholicism | The Guardian

The number of abuse claims – 310, spanning several decades – have been kept from public as archdiocese undergoes bankruptcy proceedings…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/09/new-orleans-archdiocese-clerical-sex-abuse-claims

US judge who ruled in favor of church in key abuse case donated to archdiocese

Greg Guidry gave the New Orleans church thousands of dollars and now refuses to step down from a case involving 500 victims…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/21/new-orleans-church-donation-judge-clergy-abuse-victims

Baltimore Catholic Clergy Abused Hundreds of Children and Teens, Attorney General Says - The New York Times

A 463-page investigation released by the Maryland attorney general detailed the "enormous scope and scale" of scandal...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/05/us/catholic-church-abuse-baltimore.html

Manufacturing the Clerical Predator Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDKyWrcM3o8

Portugal: Catholic clergy abused nearly 5,000 children since 1950, inquiry finds | Catholicism | The Guardian

Independent commission reaches conclusion after hearing evidence from over 500 survivors last year…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/13/portugal-catholic-clergy-abuse-nearly-5000-children-since-1950-inquiry-finds

Suspended New Orleans deacon pleads guilty to molesting preteen boy

That suit claims – among other assertions – that prominent local Catholics unsuccessfully mounted a pressure campaign to get the victim to abandon his allegations against Wheeler, who was also a well-known attorney in the area, including an offer of $400,000 for the victim to stop cooperating with law enforcement officials…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/06/new-orleans-deacon-pleads-guilty-molesting-boy-catholic

How Many Houses Did Jesus Have? (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #450)

— 45% of Americans say we should live in a “Christian nation.” Yikes…? (0:50)

— Even Christianity Today admits public schools aren’t godless. (16:50)

— Christian “prophet” Robin Bullock says that Jesus was a wealthy man who owned five houses. (26:18)

-– Sumner County, TN has adopted new rules acknowledging the supposed “Judeo-Christian” founding of the country. (34:23)

— Christian hate-preacher Greg Locke is so loud that his county may institute a noise ordinance. (40:36)

— Leaders in the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo (NY) have agreed to government oversight because they’re utterly incapable of protecting kids on their own. (48:15)

— A Hasidic school in New York City will have to pay back millions for defrauding the state. (55:50)
Interview: 

https://audioboom.com/posts/8183397-ep-450-how-many-houses-did-jesus-have

Opinion: Pope Benedict′s defense is outrageous and tragic | Europe | News and current affairs from around the continent | DW | 21.01.2022

A report about how the archdiocese of Munich handled cases of sexual abuse by priests makes for devastating reading and tarnishes the image of the retired Pope Benedict XVI, says DW's Christoph Strack...

https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-pope-benedicts-defense-is-outrageous-and-tragic/a-60520165

Procession: Netflix’s Catholic abuse documentary gives movies a new way of representing trauma.

Documentaries about abuse are an ethical minefield. Procession charts a new path...

https://slate.com/culture/2021/11/procession-netflix-movie-best-documentary-catholic-abuse.html