JOLIET, Ill. (WLS) -- The sharpest criticism in the Illinois attorney general's report on sex abuse in the Catholic church in Illinois is for the diocese of Joliet and its handling of reported ...

JOLIET, Ill. (WLS) -- At the Joliet Diocese Wednesday, fallout from the release of last week's damning 700-page report on the Catholic Church continued as members of SNAP, the Survivors Network of ...

The discrepancy is that the Diocese of Joliet has shared a list of 52 abusers. But the Illinois Attorney General's report, released last week, identified 69. That is why this group traveled to ...

The call came a week after Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul ... which includes 69 clerics affiliated with the Joliet Diocese. David Clohessy, a survivor of clergy abuse and the former ...

Diocese of Joliet Share In a report earlier this year by the Illinois attorney general, the Diocese of Joliet was criticized for continued secrecy over the extent of child sex abuse by priests and ...

Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet, Illinois, is pictured during the 2018 fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. Sixteen parishes in the Joliet Diocese will be ...

According to the Joliet Diocese, 35 diocesan priests have had ... Jacklin was arrested Oct. 31, 2017, by Illinois State Police on allegations he assaulted a resident at Shapiro Developmental ...

Five lawsuits were filed against the Diocese of Joliet May 15 alleging sexual abuse of minors by four priests and a lay teacher during the 1970s and 1980s. A Chicago law firm filed the lawsuits in ...

The Diocese of Joliet is facing a lawsuit in connection ... The suit was filed by attorneys for the Illinois Office of State Guardian on behalf of the man, who is a ward of the state.