Critics say Texas' lists of accused priests did not include enough details for the public to pinpoint abuse in their communities, most often only indicating locations clergy served but not timeframes. KXAN investigators worked with a source to obtain directories of all Catholic personnel in the U.S. for 10 specific years since 2000, filling in the blanks with hundreds of Texas priests' assignments in data now available online. We have also added dozens of names to those listed by Texas' dioceses in 2019, using information collected in early 2020 by KXAN from Catholic orders and also the watchdog group, BishopAccountability.org. Links to those sources can be found in the "Links" tab in our data. The church has also added a few names itself in that time period.
Critics say Texas' lists of accused priests did not include enough details for the public to pinpoint abuse in their communities, most often only indicating locations clergy served but not timeframes. KXAN investigators worked with a source to obtain directories of all Catholic personnel in the U.S. for 10 specific years since 2000, filling in the blanks with hundreds of Texas priests' assignments in data now available online. We have also added dozens of names to those listed by Texas' dioceses in 2019, using information collected in early 2020 by KXAN from Catholic orders and also the watchdog group, BishopAccountability.org. Links to those sources can be found in the "Links" tab in our data. The church has also added a few names itself in that time period.
