Warrant Issued For Former South Florida Priest
A longtime South Florida priest who resigned this spring was charged Tuesday with sexually abusing a boy at two parishes in the Detroit area, a prosecutor said. A Michigan arrest warrant charges the Rev. Edward Olszewski, 69, former pastor at St. Justin the Martyr Catholic Church in Key Largo, with eight counts of first-degree … [Read more...]
Phoenix Bishop Accused of Abuse Coverup
Phoenix Bishop Coverup Of Abuse. Phoenix Bishop Thomas O'Brien once advised the family of a teenage boy who allegedly was sexually abused by a priest in 1979 and 1980 not to contact authorities, a prosecutor said Tuesday. O'Brien, who was a priest but not a bishop at the time, told the family then that going to authorities would … [Read more...]
New Lawsuit Names Archdiocese
New Lawsuit Filed Against Archdiocese. A lawsuit filed yesterday against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville accuses the late Rev. Arthur Wood of sexually abusing a boy in the mid-1960s. David Bartley's suit in Jefferson Circuit Court is the 234th to be filed against the ‘archdiocese’ since last April. Five of those suits … [Read more...]
