{"id":81039,"date":"2026-03-05T08:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81039"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T13:02:21","slug":"sprawling-investigation-finds-decades-of-sexual-abuse-among-catholic-priests-in-rhode-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/sprawling-investigation-finds-decades-of-sexual-abuse-among-catholic-priests-in-rhode-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprawling Investigation Finds Decades Of Sexual Abuse Among Catholic Priests In Rhode Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Los Angeles Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Catholic priests in Rhode Island preyed on hundreds of children for decades, getting away with sexual abuse largely due to a system where bishops prioritized minimizing scandal as the diocese maintained a secret archive to conceal the revelation of more victims.<\/p>\n<p>These findings were among the many sobering details released Wednesday as part of a multiyear investigation into the Catholic Diocese of Providence, R.I., led by Atty. Gen. Peter Neronha.\u00a0The report was designed to spark a \u201cfull reckoning\u201d of the abuse that had long remained elusive inside the smallest state in the U.S., home to the country\u2019s largest Catholic population per capita, with nearly 40% of the state identifying as Catholic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1772697741\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Sprawling Investigation Finds Decades Of Sexual Abuse Among Catholic Priests In Rhode Island\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Los Angeles Times: Catholic priests in Rhode Island preyed on hundreds of children for decades, getting away with sexual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}