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Two days after Senate leaders pledged their support, the chamber approved legislation that would open the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence and other institutions to sex-abuse lawsuits.
Senators voted 37-0 Wednesday to approve an amended bill sponsored by Sen. Mark McKenney, a Warwick Democrat, that would create a two-year “revival window” allowing previously tim...
In the 1970s, in a devoutly Catholic Spain still ruled by dictator Francisco Franco, Paula Alonso-Pimentel was sent for catechism at age 8 to a religious school in the northern city of Valladolid.
There, she says, a Marist priest sexually abused her for a year in the school’s vestibule, placing her on his knees and lifting her skirt as students passed in and out. Mo...
A Roman Catholic priest who was convicted recently of criminal clergy sexual assault in Texas has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Anthony Odiong was convicted of exploiting his spiritual authority as a clergyman fo...
A disgraced priest who served for years in Texas and Louisiana has been sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of sex crimes last week.
The 57-year-old convict, Father Anthony Odiong of the Diocese of Uyo, Nigeria, served for years in the Diocese of Austin, Texas, and in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.
The jury that heard the case for the 19t...
A Catholic priest from Nigeria has been sentenced in a Texas court to life in prison, as well as to two 20-year prison terms plus $30,000 in fines, for sexually abusing several women under his spiritual care — a felony crime in that state.
Father Anthony Odiong, a priest of the Diocese of Uyo, Nigeria, who had once served in the Diocese of Austin and other dioceses ...