The Millstone: Week of November 1, 2026
NY Archdiocese settles for $800M; Polish bishop convicted for reporting failure; Alexandria bankruptcy plan rejected.
Theocracy Watch: Week of November 1, 2026
FFRF fights church-state mixing in Texas, the Pentagon, and Arkansas schools.
Theocracy Watch: Week of October 25, 2026
Oklahoma AG drops lawsuit after Ben Gamla Jewish charter school denial; FFRF report finds religious coercion in college athletics persists.
The Millstone: Week of October 25, 2026
NY Archdiocese settlement, RI bishop lawsuit, and Calvary Chapel arrest lead the news.
Theocracy Watch: Week of October 18, 2026
FFRF sues over America 250 prayer events, an Arkansas field trip gets fixed, and three updates on the Theocracy Watch Map.
The Millstone: Week of October 18, 2026
Seven lawsuits target Chicago’s Holy Angels parish, Rhode Island suits name 22 more accused clergy, and a five-year wait in Zagreb.
Theocracy Watch: Week of October 11, 2026
An Iowa city’s prayer policy backfires, Arkansas’s Ten Commandments monument goes to appeal, and Oklahoma weighs a religious charter school again.
The Millstone: Week of October 11, 2026
Riverside Church ordered to pay $11.3 million, a former Maryland priest found guilty, and a Buffalo survivor rejects a $362 million settlement.
The Millstone: Week of October 4, 2026
A Massachusetts report counts nearly 1,000 children abused by clergy, New York floats a carve-out settlement, and Vermont’s diocese tries to quit bankruptcy.
Theocracy Watch: Week of October 4, 2026
The Pentagon opens an Office of Religious Affairs, six states still have blasphemy laws, and schools in four states back off.
The Millstone: Week of September 27, 2026
An insurer pays survivors directly, Chicago payouts pass $400 million, and two pastors face charges.
The Millstone
This Week in The Millstone Twenty cases were reported this week, with BishopAccountability contributing fourteen, SNAP four, and The Humanist two. The dominant pattern was the settlement of longstanding claims, particularly in dioceses with financial or legal pressure to resolve multiple claims at once. The Diocese of Winona-Rochester reached