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Vatican-Ordered Probe of Baton Rouge Bishop (Duca) Yields Extensive Interviews, Witnesses Say, by Matthew McDonald – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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St. Joseph Cathedral in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. CC BY-SA 3.0. 8 June 2014

Matthew McDonald, National Catholic Register, June 8, 2026

Matt McDonald is a Register staff reporter. He lives in Massachusetts.

Rome ordered the ‘Vos Estis’ probe after a parishioner alleged Bishop Michael Duca delayed removing a pastor who made sexual advances on him and spoke of prior sexual misconduct involving minors.

Investigators conducted three full days of interviews last week in a probe of Bishop Michael Duca, ordered by the Vatican over the Diocese of Baton Rouge’s handling of a report of sexual abuse by a parish priest, two witnesses told the Register.

“They’re all about the timing, why it took so long,” the purported victim, a man in his mid-60s, told the Register, on condition of anonymity. “They wanted to connect a lot of dots.”

The man told the Register he and his wife spoke with the investigators for about 1 hour 45 minutes on Wednesday, June 3. …

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