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July 23, 2020

New accusation surfaces against former U.S. prelate McCarrick

Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, arrives in procession for a Mass of thanksgiving for Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Nov. 22, 2010. A new lawsuit against McCarrick, who was laicized in 2019, accuses him of managing a sex ring among seminarians, altar boys and priests at a New Jersey beach house.
WASHINGTON - A firm that has filed previous legal complaints against former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick and church entities added another complainant July 21 against the defrocked prelate, leveling a new accusation that he allegedly abused its new client as a boy at a beach house in Sea Girt, New Jersey, in the early 1980s.
Published in International
January 8, 2020

CNN settles lawsuit with Covington Catholic student

Nick Sandmann, a junior at the time at Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Ky., and other students from the school stand in front of Native American Nathan Phillips near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in this still image from video Jan. 18, 2019. CNN has reached a settlement with Sandmann, who had sued the news outlet saying it defamed him.

WASHINGTON -- CNN reached an undisclosed settlement Jan. 7 with Nick Sandmann, a Kentucky Catholic high school student who sued the cable news outlet for defamation over its coverage of an incident that occurred after last year's March for Life.

Published in International
October 18, 2019

Victim in St. Michael’s College School sex assault plans lawsuit

Victim in St. Michael’s College School sex assault plans lawsuit

The victim of a gang sexual assault in a St. Michael’s College School locker room and his family plan to file a $1.65-million lawsuit against the school, according to documents filed in Ontario Superior Court.

Published in Canada
November 15, 2018

Six sex abuse survivors announce lawsuit against U.S. bishops, urge bishops to 'come clean'

Attorney Jeffrey Anderson holds a placard reflecting U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops leadership since 2004, during a Nov. 14 press conference in Baltimore.
BALTIMORE – As the U.S. bishops entered the last public part of their 2018 fall general assembly, centered largely on the clergy sex abuse crisis, six clergy sex abuse survivors announced Nov. 14 a lawsuit against the prelates' main organization, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Published in International
September 20, 2018

Class-action lawsuit filed against eight Pennsylvania dioceses for abuse cover-up

A woman holds this sign as members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) hold a news conference in front of the Diocese of Pittsburgh Aug. 20 several days after a Pennsylvania grand jury released a stinging report that said more than 300 priests sexually abused more than 1,000 children during the course of several decades.
PITTSBURGH – A class-action lawsuit was filed Sept. 17 against eight Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania demanding the dioceses provide proof that they submitted the names of all suspected predators.
Published in International
July 19, 2017

Cameroon bishops take legal action over prelate's suspicious death

Bishop Jean-Marie Benoit Bala of Bafia, who disappeared overnight on May 31, was later found dead in a river June 2.

YAOUNDE, Cameroon – The bishops' conference of Cameroon launched a private lawsuit over the alleged murder of Bishop Jean-Marie Benoit Bala of Bafia, whose body was found floating in a river in June.

Published in International
March 22, 2017

Pennsylvania lawsuit says girl in boys' locker room violated student privacy

A lawsuit in Pennsylvania says a female student who identifies as the opposite sex has violated a male student's privacy when she used the boys' locker room to change.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – A Pennsylvania high school wrongly allowed a female student into the boys’ locker room and violated an undressing male student’s privacy and his right to be free from harassment, a lawsuit charges.

Published in International
March 7, 2017

Minnesota diocese, facing 100-plus sex abuse lawsuits, files for bankruptcy

The Diocese of New Ulm filed for bankruptcy March 3 as it faces over one hundred lawsuits concerning sex abuse dating back to the 1950s.

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Facing over one hundred lawsuits concerning sex abuse claims dating back to the 1950s, the Diocese of New Ulm has filed for bankruptcy and plans a reorganization.

Published in International
August 13, 2014

Redemptorists to pay $20-million in Quebec abuse suit

The Redemptorists have settled a sexual-abuse lawsuit stemming from abuses that took place at the order's Séminaire Saint-Alphonse next to the Basilica of St. Anne-de-Beaupre.

The Redemptorists of Canada have agreed to pay $20 million to settle claims from a sexual-abuse lawsuit filed in Quebec.

Published in Canada
November 30, 2012

HHS lawsuits' dismissal called disappointing but won't end legal challenge 

Catholic leaders in the dioceses of Pennsylvania and Tennessee expressed disappointment in the dismissal of the HHS lawsuits but hope the rulings left the door open to refiling their claims.

WASHINGTON - After judges in two separate rulings Nov. 27 dismissed lawsuits filed by Catholic organizations and dioceses in Pennsylvania and Tennessee challenging the federal contraceptive mandate, Catholic leaders in both states expressed disappointment but also some hope the rulings left the door open to refiling their claims.

Published in International