BishopAccountability.org

01/05/2026

Who we are:

Since 2003, we've been the independent watchdog that holds Catholic bishops to account.

We're the only organization in the world with this crucial mission—preserving the evidence of the Church's twin crises of abuse and cover-up.

Our database and document library are relied upon by prosecutors, investigative reporters, lawmakers, scholars, survivors, whistleblowers—every changemaker in this movement for justice.

Since 2006, we've published daily news coverage through Abuse Tracker, emailed to thousands of subscribers by our colleague Steve Sheehan.

Our online collection includes 85,000+ pages of church documents, clergy abuse reports, lists of whistleblowers and accused bishops, and so much more.

Learn more: bishopaccountability.org

The largest public library on the Catholic clergy abuse crisis. A digital collection of documents, survivor witness, investigative reports, and media coverage.

01/04/2026

Looking ahead to 2026:

🌎 International Databases: Launch Peru and Mexico databases, bringing transparency where the Church still operates with impunity

📚 Institutional Abuse Research: Expand our work documenting abuse in Native boarding schools, orphanages, and schools for the deaf—often run by Catholic religious orders and nuns. We're acquiring important legal archives from these institutions.

🎙️ Oral History Project: Continue Phase 2 of our massive project to collect witness from survivors and others involved in the crisis, including video interviews, documents, and material culture

🏛️ Bankruptcy Archives: Push for archive releases by dioceses and survivors' attorneys in Chapter 11 cases, humanizing the process through survivor impact hearings

📄 Document Digitization: Add newly acquired legal files and secret archive documents to our 85,000+ page online collection

Since 2003, we've been preserving a deep record of clergy abuse in all its complexity. We preserve truth. We end secrecy.

Stay with us.

01/01/2026

With your help, we will do even more for accountability, transparency, and the safety of children in the new year.

What we've achieved together in 2025 has been truly remarkable:
✓ Our U.S. Database topped 8,000 accused clergy with 50,000+ sources
✓ We released a groundbreaking Database in the Philippines
✓ We preserved 1,400+ copies of diocesan accused lists
✓ 20+ state attorneys general used our data to investigate cover-up
✓ 90% of U.S. bishops now publish transparency lists

22 years after our start in Boston, we've become a global force for transparency in the Catholic Church.

Together, we're continuing this transparency revolution.

Happy New Year. 🎊

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12/31/2025

🚨 FINAL DAY for 2025 tax-deductible donations 🚨

TODAY ONLY: Support the only organization in the world preserving the evidence of the Church's twin crises of abuse and cover-up.

✓ Database of 8,000+ accused U.S. clergy with 50,000+ sources
✓ Used by 20+ state attorneys general to investigate cover-up
✓ Gives validation to thousands of survivors seeking healing
✓ Compelled 90% of U.S. bishops to publish transparency lists
✓ More than a million pages of abuse files preserved

Your gift will protect children, advance justice for survivors, and educate the public.

Caring people like you—people who understand the power of facts—make this work possible.

Your tax-deductible gift holds the Catholic Church accountable for ending clergy sexual abuse.

Donate before midnight: bishop-accountability.org/donate/

12/30/2025

Despite pledges to reform, the Vatican still refuses to enact universal "zero tolerance." Outside the U.S., it still permits some proven abusers to remain active priests.

But there's good news: the opportunity to prevent child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has never been greater.

We're seeing the emergence of a growing number of truth-seekers and change-makers—from survivor-led groups to public prosecutors, from journalists to scholars.

This growing push for change has created soaring demand for our work:
📊 Database of 8,000+ Accused Clergy—used by 20+ state attorneys general
📁 Expanding document archives online
🎙️ Collecting oral histories to build a deep record of the abuse crisis
🌏 Launching databases in Peru and Mexico in 2026

The movement for accountability is stronger than ever.
Learn more: bishop-accountability.org

12/29/2025

⏰ 48 hours left for 2025 tax-deductible donations.

Despite pledges to reform, the Vatican still refuses to enact a universal "zero tolerance" policy. Incredibly, outside the U.S., it still permits some proven abusers to remain active priests.

And in the U.S., the church has a new favorite legal tactic: filing for reorganization under Chapter 11. Forty-two dioceses and religious orders have done this, freezing lawsuits and forcing victims to accept a fraction of what juries would have awarded them.

Your gift maintains our database of 8,000+ accused clergy—giving validation to survivors and helping prosecutors investigate cover-up.

Donate before December 31: bishop-accountability.org/donate

12/26/2025

Our work was featured in "Nuns vs. the Vatican" (Toronto Film Festival, DOC NYC).
The film highlights our 2024 Rome press conference where two survivors of Jesuit artist Marko Rupnik came forward publicly for the first time—a climactic moment in their fight for justice.

Our Co-Director Anne Barrett Doyle organized survivors and advocates to demand accountability for systematic abuse within a religious community he founded.

Religious sisters have been a major focus of our work: we organized the first-ever panel on nuns and sexual abuse at Notre Dame, examining the many ways nuns have experienced the abuse crisis as whistleblowers, bystanders, therapists, and victims; we also presented at the "Behind the Veil" international conference in Germany.

This work sheds light on abuse patterns affecting religious sisters that have been minimized for too long.

Learn more: bishop-accountability.org

12/23/2025

2025 has been remarkable:
📊 8,000+ accused clergy in our U.S. database with 50,000+ sources
🌏 Launched groundbreaking Philippines database—world's third largest Catholic country
✅ 90% of U.S. bishops now publish accused clergy lists
⚖️ 20+ state attorneys general used our data to investigate cover-up
📁 Preserved 1,400+ copies of diocesan lists (critical after Vatican ruled against them)

Together, we've made the Church safer for children and helped survivors find healing.
Christmas is difficult for many clergy abuse survivors. We're grateful for their courage in coming forward—every document at BishopAccountability.org exists because of their determination.

12/22/2025

We're the world's most comprehensive resource on clergy abuse—both watchdog and library.
📊 U.S. Database: 8,000+ accused clergy, 50,000+ sources
🌏 International: Philippines, Argentina, Chile, Ireland (Peru & Mexico coming 2026)
📁 85,000+ church documents online
📰 Daily Abuse Tracker blog since 2006
🎓 Partnering with Notre Dame & 12+ universities
🎬 Featured in "Nuns vs. the Vatican"

We've inspired 165 U.S. dioceses and 42 religious orders to release names of accused clergy.

Visit bishop-accountability.org to learn more

12/21/2025

When Pope Francis died and Pope Leo was elected in 2025, the world turned to BishopAccountability.org for answers.

Our Co-Director Anne Barrett Doyle was quoted in The New York Times, AP, Washington Post, ABC News, Reuters, and other major outlets. She and survivor Dr. Ann Hagan Webb held a standing-room-only press conference in Rome spotlighting problematic records of papal contenders.

We're the only organization preserving evidence of clergy abuse—the authoritative voice the world relies on for accountability.

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12/18/2025

We're the only organization in the world with this crucial mission—preserving the evidence of the Church's crises of abuse and cover-up.

Millions of pages of abuse files are preserved in our library, and tens of thousands of them are posted on our website.

👉 Learn more at bishop-accountability.org

12/14/2025

Our U.S. Database of Accused Clergy has topped 8,000 entries with links to 50,000+ sources.

The impact? Enormous.

More than 20 state attorneys general and district attorneys have used our database and archives to investigate crimes and cover-ups, and they've written more than two dozen reports.

Even more importantly, it validates survivors. A young father told us his healing began when he found his abuser named in our database. A woman in her eighties found the priest who assaulted her at age seven—giving her the closure she'd sought for decades.

Visit to learn more👉 bishop-accountability.org