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Nov 6, 2015 · By Alex Bregman The film, “Spotlight” is already getting Oscar buzz for its portrayal of one of the most groundbreaking stories in the history of journalism: the Boston Globe’s investigation into the coverup of child sex abuse rampant in the Catholic Church. Ben Bradlee Jr. was the former deputy managing editor at the Boston Globe who oversaw the paper’s investigation by a reporting ...
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Apr 5, 2023 · 121. Baltimore’s Catholic Church sexually abused at least 600 children over 60 years, Maryland AG says. Maryland's top prosecutor accused Catholic Church officials in Baltimore on Wednesday of engaging in a yearslong cover-up of the sexual abuse of 600-plus children, some of whom were “preyed upon by multiple abusers over decades."
May 23, 2023 · More than 450 Catholic clergy in Illinois sexually abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950, the state’s attorney general found in an investigation released Tuesday, revealing that the problem was far worse than the church had let on. Attorney General Kwame Raoul said at a news conference that investigators found that 451 Catholic clergy abused 1,997 children in Illinois between 1950 and 2019 ...
Apr 5, 2023 · Maryland's top prosecutor accused Catholic Church officials in Baltimore on Wednesday of engaging in a yearslong cover-up of the sexual abuse of 600-plus children, some of whom were “preyed upon ...
Sep 11, 2018 · VATICAN CITY (AP) — With the Catholic Church in crisis once again over clerical sex abuse and cover-up, Pope Francis will meet Thursday with U.S. cardinals and bishops who are demanding to know how one of their own was able to climb the clerical ranks despite allegations that he slept with seminarians.
Jul 29, 2021 · The latest sex scandal in the Catholic Church alleges that a prominent priest, Monsignor Jeffrey Burrell, used the gay hookup app Grindr to habitually violate his vow of celibacy while serving as ...
Jun 2, 2023 · The numbers of accused priests and incidents of abuse in the Catholic church peaked between the mid-1960s and mid-1980s, according to a 2011 study. Jason Cohn/Reuters. The nearly 900-page report ...
