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In a 48-page decision, Hampden Superior Court Judge Karen L. Goodwin found a longtime Springfield Catholic diocesan lawyer served as a disingenuous spin doctor to shield late Bishop Christopher Weldon from decades-old rape allegations.
British human rights campaigner Benedict Rogers / Courtesy photo London, England, Mar 14, 2022 / 09:57 am (CNA). A Catholic activist insisted on Monday that his U.K.-based human rights monitoring group would not be silenced after Hong Kong poli...
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...
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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 respond to cases of sex abuse. The task force had originally been chaired by retired Massachusetts Super...
St. Michael's 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 brought against the late Christopher Weldon, Bishop of Springfield from 1950 to 1977. Doe, a former al...