Abuse in Appalachia

Abuse in Appalachia:

• News on Michael Bransfield and the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston

• Editorials/opinion on Bransfield/DWC by or about CCA members

• Editorials/opinion on Bransfield/DWC by others

• News/opinion on abuse in other Appalachian dioceses

• Lists of credibly accused clergy in Appalachian dioceses

Other resources

Legal reckoning: New abuse suits could cost church over $4B
Bernard Condon and Jim Mustian, Associated Press, Dec. 2, 2019

Schönborn spells out shocking reality of clerical sex abuse
Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, The Tablet, Nov. 27, 2019

Catholic boards hailed as fix for sex abuse often fail
Reese Dunklin, Mitch Weiss and Matt Sendensky, Associated Press, Nov. 20, 2019

Broken trust in a broken clerical system
Robert Mickens, La Croix, June 7, 2019

Vatican’s glossary of terms associated with handling of sexual abuse claims
Vatican.va

A Catholic Abuse Crisis Syllabus
Catherine R. Osborne, Daily Theology, Sept. 18, 2018

Worldliness is the very heart of the Catholic Church’s crisis
Michael Sean Winters, National Catholic Reporter, Sept. 12, 2018

McCarrick, the bishops, and unanswered questions
J.D. Flynn, Catholic News Agency, July 23, 2018

SNAP
Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests

ProPublica U.S. Database of Credibly Accused Clergy
Based on diocesan lists of credibly accused clergy

Bishop-Accountability.org
Independently-produced lists of credibly accused clergy and other information