Operation Phobos

SALINA – The Diocese of Dodge City announced on February 8th that Bishop John Brungardt has been accused of sexual abuse of a minor, according to a media release from the Diocese of Salina.

“Touching incidents” allegedly occurred in public parks, the schoolyard of PS 8 and at the plaintiff’s home.

More victims of sexual assault by members of the Roman Catholic clergy have come forward in B.C. after the release of a report in 2019 on cases of abuse going back decades. 

As U.S. Catholics await the release of the Vatican's report on former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was laicized by Pope Francis for serial sexual abuse, a new podcast chronicles the scourge of clergy abuse that has plagued the Catholic Church for more than seven decades.

CATANIA, Italy (RNS) — Since the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis began, lay associations have been the Achilles’ heel of its efforts to protect children.

After an official with the Society of St. Pius X told priests and staff they should speak with criminal investigators only in the presence of an attorney provided by the group, the group’s leaders say their message was not intended to suggest anyone should cover up alleged sex abuse.

A RUSSIAN priest has reportedly been arrested after allegedly filming sick sex attacks on more than 50 children. Yury Abramov, 39, a former activist in the pro-Putin political party United Russia, …

The victim, who was five when he joined the children's home in Speyer, Germany, said he was raped around 1,000 times during his time at the home in the 1960s and 70s, alongside other boys.

Nuns in the city of Speyer "dragged" children to be sexually abused by priests and politicians, a survivor told a German court. His explosive testimony is the latest abuse scandal to rock the German Catholic Church.

The Church of England has approved an initial compensation scheme for survivors of sexual abuse that could reach a multimillion-pound sum as it braces itself for the findings of an independent inquiry to be published next week.

The C of E’s executive body, the Archbishops’ Council, unanimously agreed to draw down reserves for the first payouts to survivors as part of an “interim pilot scheme”.

A man allegedly targeted by a paedophile priest is to sue the Pope, it emerged today.

A priest whom the Archdiocese of New Orleans added this week to a list of clergymen faced with credible allegations of child molestation dating back to the 1980s has since...

A new report from U.S. Roman Catholic bishops tallies 4,434 sex abuse allegations against church clergy in the audit year through last June — triple the number from the previous year