Vigano, Steelers Alerted to Sexual Abuse in 2012
Following a June 30, 2012 conversation with Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States during his visit to the Greensburg Diocese, a letter dated July 19 [View as PDF] alerted Mr. Arthur. J. Rooney, II and two other members of of the Pittsburgh Steelers organization making them fully aware of a long (and still […]
Saint Vincent Archabbey releases names of members accused of sexual abuse
(Tribune-Review) Two days after the release of a bombshell report chronicling allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic priests across Pennsylvania — and decades after it removed many from ministry — Saint Vincent Archabbey in Unity on Thursday revealed the names of a dozen members it deemed to have been credibly accused of similar wrongdoing.
Carr Letter to Archbishop Chaput
Dear Archbishop Chaput, It is with some regret that I find myself in a position, that I have to email to highlight the unacceptable intransigence of our Church. In the past, you received correspondence from Mr. Patrick Marker that highlighted the serious sexual misconduct of Fr. Douglas Nowicki, the perfidious superior of St. Vincent Archabbey, […]
Letter to Persico re Nowicki Misconduct
On October 1, 2012, Archabbot Douglas Nowicki stood outside St. Peter Cathedral with newly installed Bishop Lawrence Persico. A month earlier, then Msgr. Persico met with the webmaster of this web site to discuss sexual misconduct by Archabbot Nowicki. After hearing the allegations against Nowicki, Persico commented that this type of misconduct, “is not something that […]
Did Archabbot Douglas Nowicki offer a bribe to protect Cardinal Wuerl?
In a 2009 article (below), Mike Ference suggests that Archabbot Douglas Nowicki offered him a university scholarship for his son Adam Ference to buy his silence to protect the then Bishop of Pittsburgh, Donald Wuerl in an attempt to protect pedophiles in the Pittsburgh Diocese. Adam Ference was shot in the back of the head […]
