FEATURED ON THE SITE IN 2005

In 2005 BishopAccountability.org will post essential information on the Catholic sexual abuse crisis in the United States—tens of thousands of diocesan documents, news articles, and reports by the bishops and independent commissions. We invite you to visit our home page and subscribe to receive email updates on new documents and other features. Include this page in your favorites, and you are a click away from our constantly updated resource on the crisis and challenges facing Catholicism today. Visit this page frequently to stay current on late-breaking developments and our "unique and unsurpassed" archive.

Our Web site consolidates information made public through the efforts of survivors, advocates, scholars, and reporters. Many thousands of pages from an archive gathered by attorney Sylvia Demarest will be posted in 2005.

MARCH 3, 2005 – We have posted the names of all publicly accused priests who worked in the diocese of Manchester NH, with links to the thousands of pages of diocesan and investigative files released by the NH attorney general, on-line only here. The attorney general's own report – the finest yet produced in any independent investigation of the crisis – is also included, along with dozens of news articles. This feature offers the closest thing we have to a complete record of the crisis in a single diocese.
* Accused Manchester priests, all the available documents, other info

FEBRUARY 8, 2005 – We have posted hundreds of pages of documents fron Boston priest Paul Shanley's archdiocesan file, along with a detailed assignment record and other resources for understanding the career of this priest whose alleged abuses are central to the crisis.
* Shanley documents and assignment record

JANUARY 26, 2005 – This week we have posted hundreds of pages of reports and analyses that show the long history of the crisis and the bishops' response to it (little or none of this material is available elsewhere):
* Conrad Baar's 1971 report to the bishops on the Crisis in the Priesthood.
* Jason Berry's groundbreaking original articles in 1985-86 on the Gauthe case: The Tragedy of Gilbert Gauthe {Part I} {Part II}, The Other Trial, and Anatomy of a Cover-Up.
* Bishop Adam Maida's confidential 1987 reports to the U.S. bishops on disciplining sexually abusive priests. {1} {2} {3}
* Cardinal Bernardin's commissioned June 1992 report on Clerical Sexual Misconduct.
* The Franciscans' commissioned November 1993 report on abuse in their Santa Barbara seminary.
* The U.S. bishops' first first Restoring Trust report, distributed among the U.S. bishops in November 1994.
* The U.S. bishops' second Restoring Trust report, distributed to the U.S. bishops in November 1995.