
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee tries to get this apocalypse started
California: Pastor resigns after inappropriately photographing young women in 2020
Florida Baptist pastor, also a teacher’s aide, solicited child for sex, jury finds
Kansas pastor arrested in Missouri, accused of kidnapping, sexually assaulting teen
Louisiana: Clergy abuse survivors frustrated by New Orleans archdiocese’s protracted bankruptcy
Minnesota: St. Cloud priest’s bail set at $0 in alleged sexual abuse case
Minnesota: Douglas County jury finds former pastor guilty of child sex assault
Ohio: Adrian pastor charged with sex crimes, pleads no contest to 3 counts
Tennessee: Now-removed megachurch deacon arrested on charges of child sexual exploitation
Virginia pastor gets ten years on molestation charges
Of course, the vast majority of crooked or pervy religious leaders get away with everything. Of those that are caught, many are quietly reassigned to other duties, not defrocked or punished. Of the few cases that aren’t hushed up, there’s no knowing how many make the news, but undoubtedly I miss most of them, in compiling this list.

Previously in God’s divine plan
1/15/2026

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