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Databases and Lists
• The
Hierarchy of the Catholic Church - David M. Cheney's extremely 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)
• Detroit
MI (we have cached a copy
of this 5/10 report; see also our cache
of the earlier 10/09 report)
• 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)
• Fairbanks
AK (this list on our site consolidates two files 1
2
posted on the diocesan site on 12/29/09 and linked from a page
providing other documents relating to the diocese's bankruptcy filing;
we have cached
all the bankruptcy documents on our site)
• Fort
Worth TX (this list with assignments of "priests with allegations
with a semblance of truth," created on 12/11/09, is accessible on
the diocesan page through Google advanced search, but is not linked or
searchable from the diocesan
homepage; Google advanced search also retrieves a list
created on 3/30/07)
• Gallup
NM (this article reports the release of an incomplete list in the
diocesan newspaper Voice of the Southwest; no list is posted on the diocesan
website)
• Grand Rapids MI (this newspaper report
states that on 5/16/02 the diocese released a chart containing a partial
list of 8 accused priests, after the the county prosecutor met with the
diocesan attorney, who provided a list of 11 accused priests; the list
is not on the diocesan website)
• 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 three versions: 7/9/04,
11/26/07,
and 12/09)
• Monterey
CA (this letter was issued by Bishop Ryan as part of the John Jay
report process on 2/4/04 but is no longer on the diocesan website; nor
are the promised updates; the website does contain a press
release dated 7/28/09 on several accused priests, couched as a rebuttal
of two articles in the Monterey Herald 1
2)
• 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)
• Philadelphia
PA updates this online list, which it started after the Philadelphia
Grand Jury report was released on 9/15/05; the archdiocese also maintains
an online list of pending
cases; the Philadelphia lists provide photographs, assignment histories
including time in treatment facilities, and current status; the list is
not complete, but it is the best diocesan list
• 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)
• San
Diego CA (these lists of accused diocesan, religious order, and extern
priests with assignment records were released by the diocese on 3/30/07
as part of the bankruptcy
process; the lists are no longer on the diocesan website)
• 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 released this report from Bishop Robert M. Lynch on
12/12/03 as part of the John Jay report process; this report is no longer
on the diocesan website
• Toledo
OH has on the diocesan website a partial list of accused priests and
their status dated 12/31/09; we have cached a copy
of that list and a copy
of a 2/17/05 list and a 3/30/04
article on an earlier partial list
• Tucson
AZ posts this list of accused clergy and other personnel with assignment
records on the diocesan website; we have cached a copy
of the list; an earlier
version was released on 2/27/04 as part of the John Jay report process
• 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)
Boston Lists
• 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, 2/29/08)
Other Lists of Accused Priests
• List
of 236 Accused Priests from 10 Largest U.S. Dioceses (11/11/02)
• Cases
of Abusive Priests Moved to New Locations - List compiled by SNAP
from 1/6/04 USCCB audit of Charter compliance
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