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The Caged Files 14 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
Throughout the last twenty years of advocating on behalf of survivors of childhood sexual abuse, I have heard countless names for the secret sex abuse archives in the Roman Catholic Church. These fil...
MORTAL SINS coming to the West Coast 18 Jun 2013 | 08:45 pm
If you are in California or Washington, make sure that you come and see Michael D’Antonio talk about his new book MORTAL SINS. The Boston Globe calls the book “perhaps the most comprehensive history o...
Priest Criminal Arrests and Suicides 12 Jun 2013 | 08:26 pm
One of the key lessons we were taught as priests is that bishops are the Episkopos, or, the Overseer of their Dioceses. As the Episkopos, a bishop oversees all Roman Catholic Priests to whom he has g...
God or Goat? 30 May 2013 | 11:18 pm
GOD OR GOAT is one of the many child porn titles that Jesuit priest Gary Uhlenkott, S.J. at Gonzaga University allegedly purchased—discovered this week as a part of a federal sting operation on the Sp...
The Courage of One 20 May 2013 | 10:52 pm
Former Minnesota priest Jim Fitzpatrick is courageously speaking about the child sexual abuse crimes by Father Thomas Adamson and the cover-up by the Bishops of Winona. Almost 50 years ago, Fitzpatric...
MORTAL SINS on BookTV 20 May 2013 | 07:22 pm
Click here for a great segment on BookTV about MORTAL SINS with the author, Michael D’Antonio. The segment, filmed in New York City, includes a panel with me, Barbara Blaine (SNAP founder and presiden...
Accident or Pattern? 9 May 2013 | 01:27 am
Christian Brother Julian McDonald CFC testified in Australia’s Victoria Inquiry last week that the extraordinary level of child molestation at the Irish Christian Brothers school in Ballarat is CERTAI...
My upcoming talk at the University of Wisconsin, Madison 26 Feb 2013 | 12:41 am
If you find yourself in Madison, please join me at the UW Madison Global Legal Studies Center on Thursday, February 28. Click on the link for more details. Patrick J. Wall at the University of Wiscons...
Catholic Clergy Child Abuse Investigations Since 2005 … and a Papal Resignation 12 Feb 2013 | 01:17 am
The German Pope’s resignation today as the Bishop of Rome (for health reasons) is the final lie in his Papacy. Since 2005, Benedict XVI’s church has been the subject of more civil and criminal inquir...
Peeling back the thin, sacred veneer 7 Jan 2013 | 10:27 pm
The calendar year opens today with simultaneous court appearances by two of the largest Roman Catholic Archdioceses: Philadelphia and Los Angeles. In Philly, jury selection begins in the criminal tria...