In unearthed deposition, Lawrence Hecker pleaded the fifth 117 times, but still provided damning details of decades-long ...

Brodie Miller once hoped the details of the abuse he suffered would make it into a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of ...

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Lawrence Hecker pleaded the fifth 117 times as he detailed how the Catholic church protected him for more than two decades ...

At one point in the deposition even Hecker became overwhelmed at the number of times with which he has been confronted with ...

Although the Catholics invented the practice of excommunication to deal with severe sins, other religious groups have also ...

It wasn’t a big deal in those days,” Hecker said about the veil of secrecy and charity used to shroud his acknowledged abuse.

They cover the laicization of Catholic Answers’ “Father Justin” and discuss the kind of insights this technology can—and ...

Laicization is also more severe than excommunication because it permanently forbids a priest from the exercise of ministry. It also frees the church from financial responsibility for the priest ...

Had archbishop Alfred Hughes successfully put Hecker through the process known as laicization, it would have prevented him from collecting lucrative retirement benefits. Instead, by not being ...

They also said they were seeking the “laicization” of Drew, so he could not conduct Mass, hear confessions or administer sacraments. Drew will be a registered sex offender for the rest of his ...