Outspoken leader of bishops
Wilton D. Gregory has been blazing trails in the Catholic church for nearly 20 years. In the early 1980s, at age 36, he became the youngest Catholic bishop in the...
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Victims share stories of abuse by priests
DALLAS - As the nation's Catholic bishops gather today to decide how tough they should get with clergy who sexually molest children, a grieving mother hopes they will consider the...
Carroll priest indicted on abuse charges
A suspended Carroll County priest, arrested last month in the alleged abuse of a youth from the Westminster parish where he was assigned two decades ago, was indicted yesterday in...
'Zero tolerance' called excessive
Even as some Roman Catholic Church leaders say the new policy proposed by U.S. bishops for dealing with sexual abuse by priests doesn't go far enough, others are complaining that...
Bishops push to oust priests for sex abuse
A panel of Catholic bishops issued proposed guidelines yesterday that would defrock clergy who sexually abuse minors in the future or have been repeat offenders, but leave open the possibility...
At outset, privileged trips with his priest
In the early 1980s, the parish of St. John in Westminster was the center of life for the Irish Catholic family of John F. "Jef" Curran III. "My grandfather was...
Carroll priest arrested in 1980 abuse
State police arrested a Carroll County priest last night and charged him with molesting an adolescent boy more than two decades ago while on swimming outings at a Western Maryland...
2 more allege abuse by priest
A lawyer for the man accused of shooting the Rev. Maurice J. Blackwell said yesterday that at least two more people have come forward with new allegations that the Catholic...
Crisis lands on Keeler's doorstep
In the months that clergy sexual abuse of children has embroiled the American Catholic Church, Cardinal William H. Keeler has skirted the scandal. He has only reluctantly addressed the issue,...
Cardinal changes his mind, publicly apologizes to Stokes
Cardinal William H. Keeler issued a public apology yesterday during a noontime Mass to Dontee D. Stokes, the 26-year-old man who was charged this week with shooting a priest who...