Father Raymond C. Theroux, deceased, who served at St. John Vianney Parish in Cumberland, Rhode Island for 28 years, has been named publicly for the first time as having sexually abused a minor child at St. John Vianney Parish
Recently, a young man reported that he had been sexually abused twice in the rectory of St. John Vianney Parish in approximately 1996 by Father Raymond C. Theroux when the minor child was approximately 9 years old. What A demonstration and press conference on the...
The settlement offer of $800 million for victims of clergy sexual abuse by Archbishop of New York, Ronald Hicks, is beyond about time, but it took him only two months to do what his predecessor refused to do for 16 years.
Clergy sexual abuse victims should be uplifted knowing that the Archdiocese of New York and its clergy will finally be held accountable, at least financially, for hundreds of years of abuse, cover-up, obfuscation, and arrogance toward them. Although many will benefit...
Demonstration outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City, Friday, February 6, 2026
St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City Robert Hoatson, Ph.D., President and Co-founder of Road to Recovery, demonstrates outside St. Patrick's Cathedral 5th Ave between 50th/51st Streets, New York, NY of the installation of Archbishop Ronald Hicks. Friday,...
A Zoom press conference by Jeffrey A. Diminico and F. Michael Sullivan, with their attorney, Mitchell Garabedian, to discuss childhood sexual abuse as stated above and to raise public awareness
At a Zoom press conference, Jeffrey A. Diminico will announce that he was allegedly sexually abused as a minor child by Fr. Walter H. Cuenin, and F. Michael Sullivan will announce that he was allegedly sexually abused as a minor child by Fr. Eugene P. Sullivan (no...
Ex-Delbarton School Student Wins Landmark Clergy Abuse Lawsuit
T.M., an anonymous childhood sexual abuse victim of Fr. Richard Lott, OSB, at Delbarton School, Morristown, NJ, was awarded $5 million today by a six-person jury after a nearly five-week trial in the Morris County Courthouse in Morristown, NJ. The Order of Saint...
Demonstration outside Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY. Red Sox ignore sex victims
Thursday, October 2, 2025 Robert Hoatson, Ph.D., President and Co-founder of Road to Recovery, demonstrates outside Yankee Stadium
Mayor Thomas Koch of Quincy, MA, incorrectly and insensitively asserted that the clergy sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church is blamed on homosexuals who sexually abuse children.
Mayor Koch’s statement that the clergy sexual abuse crisis “was mostly homosexual issues,” was wrong on its face. Pedophiles, and not homosexuals or heterosexuals, abuse children. Sexual abuse of minors is an act of pedophilia, not gender identification....
Demonstration outside Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, Hoboken, NJ
Robert Hoatson demonstrated outside Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in Hoboken, NJ on Sunday morning, August 31, 2025 in response to Fr Alex Santora's opinion piece in the Record newspaper last week in which he tries to claim that priests who are accused of sexual...
The Brooklyn Diocese must rename the residence for seniors in downtown Brooklyn from Bishop Nicholas A. Dimarzio for a more deserving recipient
Cardinal Joseph Tobin and the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, found credible the allegations of sexual abuse of two minor children against Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio in two different parishes in Jersey City, New Jersey, and reached settlements with the two innocent...
A U.S. Catholic bishop is sharply criticizing a large payout to his accusers even after the Holy See said it had found no evidence to support allegations of abuse against him.
CNA Catholic News Agency ‘I did not authorize these’: Bishop slams 6-figure payouts after Vatican found no abuse Pope Francis greets Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn at the Vatican during the USCCB’s Region II ad limina visit on Nov. 15, 2019. | Credit: Vatican...