Michigan’s Fifth Diocesan Abuse Report Details Dozens of Allegations Against Priests

Michigan’s fifth diocesan abuse report details dozens of allegations against priests

The Michigan government released another report on diocesan abuse in December 2025, detailing dozens of allegations against more than 50 priests in the Diocese of Grand Rapids. / Credit: Snehit Photo/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Dec 16, 2025 / 12:15... [...]

New Report released on sexual abuse by Catholic Priests in Grand Rapids, my own experience, and what the Bishop said and didn’t say

On December 12th, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel released a report that covered  a 75 year period of reported sexual abuse by Catholic Priests in the Diocese of Grand Rapids. The 336 page report is hauntingly difficult to read, especially since there were lots of names I recognized in the report. When I first moved to Grand Rapids in the early 1980s, I was a youth minister at St. James Catholic Church in Grand Rapids. The following year I…

Attorney General’s report details allegations of clergy abuse in Grand Rapids diocese

The Michigan Attorney General’s Office released a report Dec. 15 detailing allegations of sexual abuse in the Diocese of Grand Rapids, the fifth of seven expected reports related to an investigation into the handling of abuse cases in each of Michigan’s Catholic dioceses. Like Michigan’s other dioceses, the Diocese of Grand Rapids has “cooperated fully with the Office of the Michigan Attorney General since the launch of its investigation in 2018…