MAY 2013 | WORCESTER TELEGRAM – A New Mexico man who says he was raped about 25 years ago by the Rev. David A. Holley is suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester in federal court — charging that local church authorities knew the diocesan priest was a pedophile, but nonetheless allowed him to practice his ministry in other parts of the country.READ FULL ARTICLE
1997 | Church Officials Allowed Pedophile Priest to Work
AUGUST 1997 | AP-DALLAS — The correspondence of top Catholic officials shows they knowingly allowed a pedophile priest to work for at least 20 years in four states, according to a copyright story in early editions today of The Dallas Morning News.READ FULL ARTICLE
1997 | Path of a Pedophile Priest
Top Catholic officials knowingly allowed the Rev. David A. Holley to work in more than a dozen parishes or hospitals in Massachusetts, New Mexico, Texas and Colorado, according to church documents reviewed by The Dallas Morning News. Here are excerpts from their correspondence about and with Father Holley, who is now in prison. READ FULL ARTICLE
1997 | Documents Show Bishops Transferred Known Abuser
August 1997 | DALLAS MORNING NEWS – By Brooks Egerton — “A National Conference of Catholic Bishops leader and several other top clerics knowingly allowed a child-molesting priest to work for at least 20 years in Massachusetts, New Mexico, West Texas and Colorado, their correspondence shows. Repeated transfers of the now imprisoned Rev. David Holley provide a case-study in how bishops have cooperated to protect pedophiles in the priesthood.” READ REPORT ON PDF
1997 | Path of a Pedophile Priest (Excerpts from Bishops’ Letters in Holley case)
August 1997 | DALLAS MORNING NEWS – “Top Catholic officials knowingly allowed the Rev. David A. Holley to work in more than a dozen parishes or hospitals in Massachusetts, New Mexico, Texas and Colorado according to church documents reviewed by The Dallas Morning News. Here are excerpts from their correspondence about or with Fr. Holley.”