Databases and Lists

* The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church - David M. Cheney's incredibly useful resource providing "current and historical information about the bishops and dioceses" of the Catholic church
* USCCB's List of U.S. Bishops and Dioceses
* CanonLawInfo.com - Dr. Edward N. Peter's useful lists and commentary
* U.S. Roman Catholic Dioceses by State - a convenient map and list, with links to diocesan Web sites, bishops' email addresses, and parish directories, presented by ParishesOnline

* Portrait of the Accused - NY Times summary table and charts of accused priests, with spreadsheet of the summary data (1/12/03)
* Catholic Bishops and Sex Abuse - Dallas Morning News
* America's Worst Bishops: Which Bishops Have Made the Worst Decisions about Abusive Priests? by Laura Sheahan, Rebecca Phillips and Deborah Caldwell, Beliefnet.com (6/02)

* Accused Baltimore Priests and Cardinal Keeler's letter explaining the list
* Cases of Abusive Priests Moved to New Locations - List compiled by SNAP from 1/6/04 USCCB audit of Charter compliance

Dioceses That Have Released Lists of Accused Priests

* Baltimore MD and Cardinal Keeler's letter explaining the list (as of 1/28/10, these materials are not on the archdiocesan website)
* Chicago (updated at the same URL with no "revised on" date and no indication of who has been added or what has been changed; see our cached copies of earlier versions; numbers in brackets indicate additions, subtractions, and current totals of priests with substantiated allegations: 3/20/06 [+15=55; see Falsani article for prior total]; 9/15/08 [+7=62]; 1/4/10 [+3–1=64]; 1/14/10 [+1=65])
* Davenport IA (this table has been updated periodically by the diocese; we have several cached versions: 7/14/08 and 5/21/09, as well as Bishop Franklin's 2/25/04 report with our commentary)
* Dubuque IA (the table has been updated periodically by the archdiocese; we have cached several versions: 2/21/06; 9/22/06; and 4/20/09; see also our webpage collating the two 2006 versions)
* Ft. Worth TX
* Joliet IL (this list has been updated periodically by the diocese; we have cached two versions: 4/9/06 and 6/18/08)
* Los Angeles CA (as of 1/28/10, the archdiocesan website offered a link on its Protecting Our Children page, purportedly to the 2/17/04 Report to the People of God; but the linked version of the Report had been modified by removing the list of accused priests; see the modified Report on the archdiocesan site and our cached copy of the modified report; after releasing the list of accused priests, published as part of the 2/17/04 Report to the People of God, the archdiocese released errata and an addendum to the report; see our page providing links and commentary)
* Madison WI (Bishop Bullock's letter is no longer on the diocesan website; we cached this copy)
* Milwaukee WI (this list has been updated periodically by the archdiocese; we have cached two versions: 7/9/04 and 11/26/07)
* Orange CA (we have cached a copy of Bishop Brown's letter regarding the John Jay results)
* Peoria OH (the diocesan website no longer provides this 5/30/02 document)
* Portland ME (this article reports on a press conference by Bishop Malone; see also another article; however, as of 1/28/10, the diocesan website does not provide a copy of Malone's statement, and it does not provide a list of accused priests)
* Spokane WA (in addition to a cached copy of the diocesan list as of 1/28/10, we have cached the identical 11/3/09 version of the list, as well the text of Bishop Skylstad's 10/23/02 announcement)
* St. Petersburg FL
* Toledo OH and an article on a previous release of this list
* Tucson AZ
* Wilmington DE and MD (Saltarelli's list is no longer available on the diocesan website; it was originally published in the 11/16/06 diocesan newspaper)

* List of 236 Accused Priests from 10 Largest U.S. Dioceses (11/11/02)
* Boston Priests Removed from the 2003 Official Catholic Directory because of Abuse Allegations (Boston Globe, 3/5/03)
* List of Accused Boston Clerics (BA.org, 6/19/06)
* Cases of Abusive Priests Moved to New Locations - List compiled by SNAP from 1/6/04 USCCB audit of Charter compliance