PROVIDENCE (RI)
GoLocalProv
January 8, 2019
In 2018, Bishop Tobin with the Diocese of Providence landed on GoLocal’s “18 to Watch” as the Catholic Church was — and continues to remain — at the center of lawsuits pertaining to the collapse of the St. Joseph pension fund.
He’ll remain squarely in the spotlight — and not for good — in 2019, when he has pledged to release a list of names of abusive priests “credibly accused” over the years in the Diocese, as pressure mounts nationally for how sexual abuse claims were handled around the country — including a U.S. Department of Investigation into Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic Church.
A poll conducted in 2018 by GoLocalProv in conjunction with Harvard’s John Della Volpe found that 89% of Rhode Islanders believe the Rhode Island Attorney General should investigate the Diocese over its handling of sex abuse claims.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.