SNAP demands more than money to compensate survivors of clerical abuse in the Archdiocese of New York for the trauma they endured and for the betrayal by their church that failed to protect them.

Jeremy Lillig pleaded guilty to charges over wire fraud while he oversaw programs for the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. Susan Pfannmuller Special to The Star KANSAS CITY, MO — A former ...

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More than two years after Lafayette Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel excommunicated a deacon whose son was molested by a priest, ...

PROVIDENCE, RI — A new lawsuit alleges that Bishop Louis E. Gelineau, the former leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, raped an altar boy at St. Luke’s Church in Barrington in the 1980s.

A message is projected on the side of a Cornell University building October 7, 2026. (AP/Rahmat Gul) ITHACA, NY — Following the news of the sexual assault-related lawsuit naming Cornell University and ...

LISBON, PORTUGAL — After the extraordinary revelations – and the sense of hope – that came from the independent commission set up almost four years ago to investigate child sex abuse within the ...

MONTROSE, CO — The former senior pastor of Calvary Chapel Montrose was arrested in connection with a case involving child sexual abuse, the church announced. Benjamin Garate is no longer employed by ...

COLUMBIA, SC — A Christian worship singer has been hit with a nine-count federal indictment. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina said in an Oct. 21 news release that ...

WILMINGTON, DE — A jury returned guilty verdicts against a former Wilmington Catholic school teacher accused of raping a student in the ’90s. After fewer than four days of trial, a jury on Oct. 22 ...

CONROE, TX — On July 2, 2026, Constable Ryan Gable’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Unit and Safe Harbor Detectives arrested Noel Walker, 20, of Conroe, Texas, following an extensive ...

WILLIAMSVILLE, NY — A former executive pastor at The Chapel and youth soccer coach was sentenced to eight years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to sexually abusing two children in Amherst. John ...