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John Denzel, 60, an employee of St. Brigid of Kildare parish and school in Dublin, Ohio, was arrested for possession of child pornography. | Nheyo|Wikimedia|CC BY-SA 3.0

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 8, 2024 / 17:36 pm

A Catholic parish and school in the Diocese of Columbus, Ohio, has fired an employee who was in charge of background checks and sexual abuse awareness training after he was arrested for possessing materials depicting child pornography and abuse.

Christa Brown  |  August 5, 2024

Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee Chair Philip Robertson gives his thoughts on the clergy sex abuse problem within the Southern Baptist Convention in this video.

Spoiler: He doesn’t think it’s much of a problem.

The Cincinnati skyline is pictured in a file photo. Father Barry Stechschulte, the former pastor of Holy Rosary Parish in St. Marys, Ohio, resigned following complaints from parishioners over his admitted effort to destroy evidence of adult and possible child pornography possession by a fellow priest. (OSV News/Aaron P. Bernstein, Reuters)

By Gina Christian         

Cincinnati — August 5, 2024

A pastor of an Archdiocese of Cincinnati parish has resigned from his post following complaints from parishioners over his admitted effort to destroy evidence of a fellow priest's possession of pornographic images, including material that possibly involved the sexual abuse of children.

By Liz Gwynn

As a Catholic theologian and leader of a national support group for victims and survivors of faith-based abuse well overrepresented by Catholic survivors, I take issue with assertions made by Palmerston North Catholic Bishop John Adams reported by Stuff in ‘Zero appetite’ for culture of abuse in Catholic church,” 30 July 2024.

Bishop Adams “wanted to put a face to the Church’s response.” But the Abuse In Care Inquiry’s Final Report put a face to the Church’s response just last week. Therefore, the bishop’s attempt to undermine the Commission’s findings merits reproof in my view.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2408/S00025/catholic-theologian-and-national-leader-of-snap-responds-to-assertions-by-catholic-bishop-of-palmerston-north-john-adams.htm

Father Barry Stechschulte resigned after more than 500 people called for him to step down

Bishop Eamonn Casey speaking to reporters in March 1994. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh/The Irish Times

A worshipper prays in Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Concepcion, Bolivia, Sept. 2, 2019. The Bolivia province of the Society of Jesus failed to follow instructions from the Jesuit curia in Rome by allegedly not publicly disclosing the findings of an investigation into a pedophile priest, compensating abuse victims and making public the name of the aggressor, the Spanish newspaper El País reported July 22, 2024. (OSV News/David Mercado, Reuters)

By David Agren