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Fr. Jacques Hamel. / Diocese of Rouen, Wikipedia. Rome Newsroom, Mar 10, 2022 / 05:00 am (CNA). Four men accused of terrorist conspiracy after the murder of the French Catholic priest Father Jacques Hamel in 2016 were convicted on Wednesday.“Ju...

Denver Newsroom, Jun 29, 2021 / 17:01 pm (CNA). The bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts has announced the appointment of two social workers to lead an independent task force responding to sex abuse. Bishop William Byrne, who took the helm in Springfield in Dec. 2020, announced Monday that clinical social worker Irene Woods and Orlando Isaza, a social worker and community activist would co-chair the task force. The goal of the task force is to draft a report on how the diocese can better resp...

St. Michaels Cathedral in Springfield, Mass./ John Phelan/wikimedia CC BY SA 3.0 Lawyers for an alleged abuse victim in the Diocese of Springfield in Massachusetts have asked the state’s chief justice to assign a special judge from outside western Massachusetts to the case, citing a potential for undue influence from people associated with the diocese. The alleged victim, identified as John Doe, claims he suffered trauma as a result of the diocese’s mishandling of an abuse allegation he bro...

Springfield Diocese Bishop William Byrne. SUBMITTED PHOTO Published: 4/1/2021 11:56:04 AM This Easter column was in the works when a love song played in my head. It served to remind me of God’s omnipresence: “It’s Always You” Funny, it’s not a star I see, it’s always you. If a breeze caresses me, it’s really you strolling by If I hear a melody, it’s merely the way you sigh Wherever you are you’re near me, you dare me to be untrue Funny, each time I fall in love, It’s alway...

Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski at the tomb of St. Peter during an ad limina visit Nov. 7, 2019. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Denver Newsroom, Feb 12, 2021 / 04:00 pm (CNA).- Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski of St. Louis is accused in a new lawsuit of covering up abuse allegations in his former diocese of Springfield, MA, which he led from 2014 until last year. The plaintiff claims he suffered trauma as a result of the diocese’s mishandling of an abuse allegation he brought against Christopher J. Weldon, bi...

Former Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski, pictured, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield is one of several people named as defendants in a lawsuit filed by the man whose sexual assault allegations against the late Bishop Christopher J. Weldon were found to be “unequivocally credible” by an independent judge. EAGLE FILE PHOTO The former altar boy who accused a legendary bishop of rape — an account deemed “unequivocally credible” by a ret...

As a new bishop for the Springfield Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church enters, so too does the hope that renewed transparency will serve to better confront and mend the wounds inflicted by the church’s lengthy history of systemic sexual abuse and cover-up. The Rev. William D. Byrne, installed Monday to lead the diocese that includes Berkshire County, has done well to set a hopeful tone by ushering in a significant change already. The diocese will expand its list of credibly accused pries...