The Diocese of Fall River today announced another retired priest who served in New Bedford and Fall River has been suspended amidst sexual abuse allegations.
A Fall River man who broke into and stole items from a rectory and then stole a priest’s vehicle was sentenced to serve three years in state prison this week.
Protesters are vowing to demonstrate outside the Massachusetts prison where a notorious figure in the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal is being released after completing a 12-year sentence for raping a boy in the 1980s.
Paul Shanley is expected to be released from the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater on Friday...
BOSTON (AP) - Prosecutors in Massachusetts say one of the most notorious figures in the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal has completed his sentence on child rape charges and will be released from prison this week.
Paul Shanley was known in the 1960s and '70s for being a hip "street priest" who reached out to troubled youths...
Today's sermon asks, is it right or wrong to re-preach someone else's sermon? The Rev. John McGinn, longtime pastor at St. John's Church in nearby Sandwich, MA, must have a lot to say about this, but he's keeping it to himself after being suspended for allegedly plagiarizing sermons for years.
With the entire world celebrating the election of Pope Francis I, some Catholics are saying the time has arrived to address the question of whether to change the holy tradition of keeping a priest single all his life.