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In June 2012, diocesan officials declined to sell Oakhurst, an historic mansion in Northbridge, Massachusetts used as a retreat center, to James Fairbanks and Alain Beret, a married gay couple. [16] [17] In September 2012, the couple sued McManus and the diocese for discrimination. They cited an email in which church officials said that McManus ...
In June 2019, Rozanski met with the victim, saying he found the allegations "deeply troubling". In June 2020, an investigation by retired Superior Court Judge Peter A. Velis found the victim's claim "to be unequivocally credible." Rozanski then asked Trinity Health of New England to remove Weldon's name from its rehabilitation center in Montague.
Fr. Mariano Gagnon, [26] author who worked with indigenous Peruvians during the Internal conflict in Peru; Fr. Kevin Mackin, [27] [28] President of Mount Saint Mary College. Fr. Michael Scanlan, [29] [30] Former President of Franciscan University of Steubenville and Pro-Life activities.
[23] [18] In October 2023, he published a video on X arguing that Pope Francis (whom he referred to as "Jorge Bergoglio") should be "thrown into the deep blue Mediterranean sea" with a millstone around his neck, in what was widely interpreted as a call to kill the Pontiff; he later published another post comparing Pope Francis to Satan.
David Gerard O'Connell KC*HS (July 16, 1953 – February 18, 2023) was an Irish-born prelate of the Catholic Church who was an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in California from 2015 until his murder in 2023. He served in the Los Angeles area for the entirety of his career as a priest.
In October 2016, it was announced that Fr. Riley would be leaving the collaborative. [2] Along with his departure, most of the staff was fired and the school building was closed for use, shutting down the bingo that help fund the parish for the last 43 years. In 2017, Fr. Robert Bedzinski, S.Ch. arrived to become the new parish priest.
Porter was arrested in Massachusetts in 1993. He was accused of abusing over 60 children in North Attleboro and nearly 100 children elsewhere in the diocese. [22] Porter pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 to 20 years in prison, with the possibility of parole after six years.
St Albert the Great Church was founded in 1950, as a response by the Archdiocese of Boston to the city's massive population growth. [2] The city's population more than doubled from 1940 to 1960, partially because of a new naval air station that opened in 1941, and partially because of the exodus from cities and into suburbs that began with the proliferation of the automobile.