A West Valley City minister has been removed for failing to quickly report allegations of child abuse.

We are grateful to this brave victim for cooperating with law enforcement authorities and trying to protect other kids from horrific child sex crimes by this predator priest.

The seemingly expanding case of a child molesting teacher, Harold Jerry Mash, is deeply troubling.  

Another child abuse lawsuit has been filed against a priest from the Archdiocese of Miami, the second that the archdiocese has faced in a month.

Boone County prosecutors revealed yesterday that they are investigating a once-convicted predator priest who may soon walk free from a Cooper County jail but is accused of molesting kids in the Columbia area too.

A support group for victims of clergy abuse is applauding the upcoming extradition of an alleged predator who molested in St. Louis and was freed from prison earlier this year.

Clergy sex abuse victims are blasting Kansas City’s controversial Bishop Robert Finn for “staying silent” about the recent death of an alleged predator priest who has been sued several times for molesting kids.

What will Archbishop Robert Carlson do about one of his priests - accused of fondling a girl earlier this year – whose criminal trial has just been scheduled for March.

Globe editor Martin Baron is moving on to the Washington Post. Every parent in the US should be grateful to him.

We are grateful to police for arresting Bishop Peter Ball. Simply because he is elderly and has retired does not mean that he is safe around children. In fact, his age and “grandfatherly” image may actually make him more dangerous.

We applaud Prime Minister Julia Gillard for this move, but caution that this is only a first step. Aggressive investigation of all clergy sex crimes and cover ups by institutional leaders, church officials and law enforcement - regardless of when they happened or where the wrongdoers are now - must happen simultaneously. 

Is there any crime a bishop can commit that would get him kicked out of America’s bishops group? Or even denounced by one of his fellow bishops? That’s what we can’t help but wonder.