Catholic News

• Wisconsin clergy abuse probe enters 4th year (Wisconsin Department of Justice)
  The attorney general of Wisconsin has published an update on the state’s clergy abuse probe as it enters its fourth year. Attorney General Josh Kaul said that his department has received 274 abuse reports, 66 of which were previously unreported, and 76 of which were previously reported only to a religious authority. Kaul pledged to […]
• Tajikistan's president meets with Pontiff (Vatican Press Office)
  Pope Francis received Emomali Rahmon, Tajikistan’s president since 1994, in an April 26 audience. Rahmon also met with Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, and Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations. The parties discussed “the good relations between the Holy See and Tajikistan,” “some aspects of […]
• University urged to revoke degree earned by notorious priest (KUOW-FM)
  A chemistry professor in California has urged the University of Washington to revoke a Ph.D. degree earned in 1978 by Patrick O’Donnell, a onetime Spokane priest (now laicized) who has been accused of abusing over 65 boys. The chemistry professor, Dan O’Leary, said he almost became one of O’Donnell’s victims as an altar boy and […]
• USCCB committee chairman presents Congress with detailed requests for migration-relation budget increases (USCCB)
  Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, the chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Migration, urged members of Congress to increase funding for migration-related government programs. Bishop Seitz presented members of Congress with detailed requests for funding for nearly 20 different programs. For example, he requested $150 million for the Executive Office for Immigration Review’s […]