A Pennsylvania woman Wednesday filed suit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Allentown, Pa., in Superior Court of New Castle County, alleging child sexual abuse by a now-deceased Allentown, Pa., priest — some of which she says occurred when she lived in Smyrna.
News
A former Roman Catholic archbishop of Milwaukee who resigned in 2002 over a sex and financial scandal involving a man has written a memoir that describes how he struggled with being gay.
Former Milwaukee Catholic Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, who retired in 2002 amid accusations of a sexual scandal, has decided to leave Milwaukee for a Benedictine abbey in New Jersey.
Judge: Lawyer can have the names, but for now he can’t make them public.
Priests accused of sexual misconduct
in Minnesota
The Twin Cities Archdiocese and the Diocese of Winona seek an order to keep St. Paul lawyer Jeff Anderson from sharing the list. “I think there’s a moral and legal imperative” to name, he said.
More than 25 years after his teacher sexually molested him, a former Cherokee Middle School student sued the Madison School District, claiming the district should have known about the teacher’s history of molesting students at other schools.
Mahony, who once served in Fresno’s Roman Catholic diocese, was subpoenaed by attorneys for two brothers who say they were molested at a Central Valley church from 1959 to 1973.
Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles made a rare court appearance to testify that he knew nothing of sexual abuse two brothers claim they suffered years ago at the hands of a priest in rural central California.
Pa. man alleges then-Capuchin the Rev. Paul Daleo molested him from 1978-1979