A native of Aurora, Father Van Duren was ordained on May 31, 1952. His work took him to different parts of the country before he arrived at the Joliet Catholic Diocese in 1970. Father Van Duren ...

Two brothers reported a Diocese of ... as children by the Rev. Arno Dennerlein in the mid-1970s, when Dennerlein was a priest at St. Patrick Catholic Church. The men told Joliet police on Feb ...

Eddie Burkel and Steve Janik say they were allegedly abused by Father James Nowak, a priest from the Joliet Diocese that both men say their families trusted when they were children. "I was an ...

The three unidentified men were allegedly repeatedly abused by Father Leonard Mateo of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet between 1980 and 1982, before they reached age 11. They came forward ...

A suburban Chicago diocese will pay millions in a ... savage out of all of them,” McKenna told the Joliet Patch. “He was a sodomist. Fr. Gibbs took kids to his family’s cabin in Wisconsin.

Keith Aeschliman said he will file a lawsuit on behalf of a 44-year-old man who says he was abused by a Joliet diocese priest in ... The alleged victim’s father said Thursday that his son ...

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 ... he was abused by Father James Nowak.

The Catholic Diocese of Joliet said Tuesday lifted the veil on ... The release is part of a lawsuit settlement involving Fr. James Burnett. Lawyers were beginning the process of reviewing the ...