Joliet Police Department The priest was confronted by employees of the Diocese of Joliet, and he was told that “he must depart from our parish and out of our Diocese.” “In an abundance of ...
JOLIET — The Joliet Police Department on Tuesday issued a press release revealing that 50-year-old Catholic priest Father Carlos Martins has officially been arrested, processed at the police ...
The allegations are “false,” his attorney said in a statement, adding that she expects the priest to be “fully exonerated.” Martins, according to the Catholic News Agency, was in Joliet ...
One of the congregations slated for a merger in the western suburbs has appealed that move by Bishop Ron Hicks, who oversees ...
The Joliet diocese was one of the epicenters of ... But church reformer Tom Doyle, a former priest, has said the sex abuse crisis permeates virtually everything going on in the church in the ...
The priest was confronted by employees of the Diocese of Joliet, and he was told that "he must depart from our parish and out of our Diocese." "In an abundance of caution, the veneration of the ...