Bishop Jean-Pierre Blais of Baie-Comeau, Quebec, and the late Bishop Clément Fecteau, who served as bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, were named in an 11-page victims’ list recently made public by the Arsenault Dufresne Wee law firm.
Two more bishops named in class action against Quebec Archdiocese
Report on Cologne cardinal’s PR strategy prompts renewed controversy
A recent report on the public relations strategy used by Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki during a clerical sex abuse scandal has provoked renewed controversy, even after the cardinal’s March return from his six-month sabbatical initiated by Pope Francis, reported the German Catholic news agency KNA.
Vatican exonerates Cardinal Woelki in financial investigation
Cardinal Woelki and Msgr. Markus Hofmann, vicar general of the archdiocese, did not violate canon law in their funding of investigations and hiring of communications consultants, said the Vatican.
Criminal charges against Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis dropped
Prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis as its present and past archbishops apologized for failures to protect children from a sexually abusive priest.