The state’s Catholic Conference ... some members of the hierarchy who helped protect them. David Lorenz, director of the Maryland chapter of SNAP, an advocacy group for clergy abuse victims ...

Several of the projects fault clericalism, or the Catholic hierarchy, with fostering clergy’s sense of superiority, isolation and ultimately abuse. As part of the remedy, the report calls for ...

In an article titled " 'I Will Surely Have You Deported:' Undocumenting Clergy Sexual Abuse in an Immigrant Community" (which won a top award from the Catholic Theological Society of America this ...

And overall, one of the biggest challenges facing history’s first American pope will be how he addresses the clergy abuse scandal, which has traumatized thousands of people around the world and ...

“It is inconceivable,” said the statement, “that a Roman Catholic President would not be under extreme pressure by the hierarchy of his church to accede to its policies with respect to ...

In 2018, Pennsylvania became the epicenter of the Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis with the release of a statewide grand jury report detailing decades-old concealment of the systemic abuse of ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, has something in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy. He’s been in positions of authority when accusations of sexual abuse have arisen against priests under ...

Born in 1940 in Lexington, Kentucky, Taylor attended Catholic schools in Cincinnati, according to a biography at the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus ... and with the hierarchy, pastors ...

when asked his opinion about homosexual men in the ranks of the Catholic clergy. In 2023 ... including from within the Catholic hierarchy. In 2018, Francis accepted the resignation of Theodore ...