What this site is and is not.

What it is

Church Scandals is a sourced reference: a documented record of financial, sexual, institutional, doctrinal, and historical scandals in the Christian church — across denominations and across centuries. Each entry is anchored in primary documents, official inquiries, peer-reviewed scholarship, or recognised news of record. The methodology page sets the editorial standard.

What it is not

• It is not a polemic against Christianity or any denomination.
• It is not a comment system, a forum, or a database of unsourced allegations.
• It is not a database of private individuals. Named principals are limited to those whose conduct is part of the public record of an episode.
• It is not a substitute for legal advice, pastoral care, or trauma support.

Why it exists

The episodes catalogued here are already in the public record — in court archives, in published inquiries, in peer-reviewed history. They are, however, scattered across jurisdictions and centuries. The work of this site is to bring them together in a single, sourced reference that residents, journalists, researchers, clergy, lawyers, and citizens can use.

The premise of the work is that documented institutional misconduct is documented institutional misconduct, and that the historical record stands independent of anyone's view of the underlying faith. The site treats that record with the same standard of sourcing the institutions themselves would (and frequently do) apply to their own internal histories.

Contact

This site does not host comments or contact forms. Correctible factual errors — wrong dates, misattributed sources, broken citations — are accepted via the email address published on the methodology page once a stable contact channel is set up. Editorial disagreements about scope or framing are not corrections.

Colophon

Edited and maintained by a believing Christian at honto.me. The decision to publish this record is itself a decision made from inside the tradition: institutional accountability is not the enemy of faith, and the documentary record is owed to survivors, to the institutions themselves, and to a public that has every right to it.