Media seek open hearing on NFL team’s emails with church

New Orleans news outlets were set to argue Thursday for an open hearing on the confidentiality of emails between Roman Catholic officials and the city’s NFL franchise concerning clergy sex-abuse scandals. As The Associated Press reported last month, victims’ lawyers allege that hundreds of Saints emails show team executives did behind-the-scenes public relations damage control... Read More

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NFL, Saints

February 11, 2020

Guilty plea to federal charges in black church burnings

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The aspiring ‘black metal’ musician who was arrested in a series of fires set at African American churches in Louisiana last spring pleaded guilty Monday to federal and state criminal charges. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release that Holden Matthews pleaded guilty to three counts of intentional damage... Read More

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Holden Matthews

February 11, 2020

Saints owner denies team had role in clergy sex abuse list

The owner of the New Orleans Saints said Monday that the NFL team played no role in determining which priests would be named in the list of “credibly accused” clergy published by the area’s Roman Catholic Church. Gayle Benson, a devout Catholic who has donated millions of dollars to church causes, also said in a... Read More

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Catholic Church, NFL, Saints

February 3, 2020

Key witness could be in doubt in landmark church retrial

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An aging monsignor who was the first U.S. church official ever tried and sent to prison over his handling of priest-abuse complaints could soon be retried in the 2011 case with one thing missing — the victim. The only accuser whose complaint fell within the statute of limitations is a young man... Read More

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Catholic Church, William Lynn

January 31, 2020

NFL’s Saints accused of helping shape clergy sex abuse list

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Saints say they only did “minimal” public relations work on the area’s Roman Catholic sexual abuse crisis, but attorneys suing the church allege hundreds of confidential Saints emails show the team’s involvement went much further, helping to shape a list of credibly accused clergy that appears to be... Read More

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Catholic Church, NFL, Saints

January 31, 2020

Lawyer: Businessman was used by polygamists in fraud scheme

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A California businessman accused of leading a nearly $500 million biodiesel fraud scheme was actually being used by a Utah polygamist who didn’t want to share the proceeds with his community, a defense attorney said Thursday. Polygamist Jacob Kingston previously pleaded guilty in the scheme and is now trying to... Read More

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Lev Aslan Dermen

January 9, 2020

Court reverses $35M verdict against Jehovah’s Witnesses

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a $35 million judgment against the Jehovah’s Witnesses for not reporting a girl’s sexual abuse to authorities. Montana law requires officials, including clergy, to report child abuse to state authorities when there is reasonable cause for suspicion. However, the state’s high court said in... Read More

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Jehovah's Witnesses

January 7, 2020

Monks at Saint Anselm clash with college board over power

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Monks at a Catholic college in New Hampshire faced off in court Monday against the school’s board of trustees in a dispute over an effort to limit the the monks’ power — a move some worry could lead to increased secularization. A judge heard motions in Hillsborough Superior Court related to... Read More

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Saint Anselm

January 2, 2020

Lawsuit: Famed Jesuit abused boy 1,000 times around world

CHICAGO (AP) — One day in May of 1970, an 11-year-old boy and his disabled sister were sitting on the curb outside a Chicago tavern, waiting for their mother to come out. When a priest with crinkly eyes and a ready smile happened by and offered the family a ride home, they could not have... Read More

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Donald McGuire

December 31, 2019

Lawsuit: Famed Jesuit abused boy 1,000 times around world

CHICAGO (AP) — A globe-trotting Jesuit priest with ties to Mother Teresa sexually abused an American boy “more than 1,000 times, in multiple states and countries,” a lawsuit filed Monday in California state court in San Francisco alleges. In the lawsuit and in interviews with The Associated Press, Robert J. Goldberg, now 61, describes years... Read More

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Robert J. Goldberg

December 30, 2019

Hundreds of accused clergy left off church’s sex abuse lists

Richard J. Poster served time for possessing child pornography, violated his probation by having contact with children, admitted masturbating in the bushes near a church school and in 2005 was put on a sex offender registry. And yet the former Catholic priest was only just this month added to a list of clergy members credibly... Read More

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Catholic Church, Sexual Abuse

December 27, 2019

Pennsylvania dioceses offer $84M to 564 clergy abuse victims

Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses have paid nearly $84 million to 564 victims of sexual abuse, a tally that’s sure to grow substantially in the new year as compensation fund administrators work through a backlog of claims, according to an Associated Press review. Seven of the state’s eight dioceses launched victim compensation funds in the wake... Read More

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Catholic Church

December 16, 2019

Tennessee pastor gets 38 years in child sex abuse sentence

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee pastor faces 38 years in prison after being found guilty on 24 counts involving child sex abuse. News outlets report that 41-year-old Ronnie Gorton received the sentence Friday in Tipton County. He was convicted on charges including sexual battery and statutory rape in August. Judge Joe Walker said at... Read More

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Ronnie Gorton

December 13, 2019

Ex-Roman Catholic deacon indicted on child rape charge

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A former Roman Catholic Church deacon in New Orleans was indicted Thursday on a charge that he raped an altar boy nearly 40 years ago. George Brignac, 84, was charged by a grand jury Thursday with one count of aggravated rape. He was arrested in September. The victim in the case... Read More

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George F. Brignac

Media seek open hearing on NFL team’s emails with church

Guilty plea to federal charges in black church burnings

Saints owner denies team had role in clergy sex abuse list

Key witness could be in doubt in landmark church retrial

NFL’s Saints accused of helping shape clergy sex abuse list

Lawyer: Businessman was used by polygamists in fraud scheme

Court reverses $35M verdict against Jehovah’s Witnesses

Monks at Saint Anselm clash with college board over power

Lawsuit: Famed Jesuit abused boy 1,000 times around world

Lawsuit: Famed Jesuit abused boy 1,000 times around world

Hundreds of accused clergy left off church’s sex abuse lists

Pennsylvania dioceses offer $84M to 564 clergy abuse victims

Tennessee pastor gets 38 years in child sex abuse sentence

Ex-Roman Catholic deacon indicted on child rape charge

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