Category: Churches and Religious Organizations

Rebuilding trust: The impact of clergy abuse

Trust forms the foundation of any community, especially one rooted in faith and love. When a spiritual leader betrays this trust, the effects ripple throughout...

Fact or Fiction? Older Abuse Allegations Can’t Be Proven

There’s a prevalent misconception about abuse allegations that date back decades. Most people think that older accusations can’t ever really be proven one way or...

Keeping Secrets in the Name of “Victims’ Privacy”

We at Horowitz Law aren’t fond of bishops cloaking themselves in secrecy about abuse. But we HATE when they do it under the guise of...

Church Sex Abuse Crisis Over? We Think Not

Is the church abuse crisis over? Let’s look at a few of last week’s headlines in the news regarding the church’s abuse crisis. The following...

Reasons Why Sexual Abuse Reported Years Ago is More...

When a report of a priest sexually abusing a child surfaces, almost without fail, bishops provide one fact- how long ago the offense allegedly happened....

Reasons Why So Many Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Priests...

We’ve all seen pleas from our local police department, sheriff’s department, or sometimes a prosecutor or another law enforcement agency. The medium sometimes differs. It...

Palmetto Pastor Jonathan Elwing Charged with 18 Felonies for...

Jonathan Elwing, a senior pastor of Palm View First Baptist Church in Palmetto, Florida, was arrested by the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office on June 21, 2024, after...

Another Dangerous Fresno Priest: Father Ramon Salvador Gomez

It leaves us scratching our collective heads as we just posted about another predator priest, but as best we can tell, not a single US TV...

Another Notorious Fresno Predator Priest: Father Louis Aloysius Garcia

A few weeks ago, we wrote about the ‘very troubling case’ of a Fresno diocesan abuser, Fr. Eric Swearingen. As one might expect, Fr. Swearingen has...