{"id":83965,"date":"2026-06-27T07:57:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83965"},"modified":"2026-06-27T07:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T11:57:05","slug":"priestly-secrets-and-sexual-misconduct-at-university-of-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/priestly-secrets-and-sexual-misconduct-at-university-of-notre-dame\/","title":{"rendered":"Priestly Secrets And Sexual Misconduct At University Of Notre Dame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Chicago Sun Times:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two priests long affiliated with the University of Notre Dame groomed and sexually abused young men at the storied Catholic college and elsewhere over many years dating to the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>And the clerics \u2014 both with ties to the Chicago area \u2014 were allowed to stay in ministry long after church and school officials were said to have been aware of some of the potential misconduct.\u00a0Those are the central takeaways from interviews with the Chicago Sun-Times and a recently released report commissioned by Notre Dame detailing accusations of sexual misconduct by the Rev. Thomas King, who is now retired, and the Rev. David Porterfield, who died in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Chicago Sun Times: Two priests long affiliated with the University of Notre Dame groomed and sexually abused young men.<\/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-83965","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\/83965","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=83965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83966,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83965\/revisions\/83966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}