Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola

Freelance journalist Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola has been covering religious institutions and clergy sex abuse in the Southwest since 2002.

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The Archdiocese of Santa Fe offices are pictured in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a 2018 file photo. (AP photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, file)

Aug 26, 2024

Questions on abuse claims remain after bankruptcy judge rules against survivor

Analysis: A bankruptcy judge ruled against a clergy sex abuse claimant this summer in her legal dispute with the Santa Fe Archdiocese. The decision may now serve as a cautionary warning to attorneys in other church bankruptcies.

St. Charles Catholic Church in San Carlos, Arizona is located in the San Carlos Apache Tribe's capital in southeastern Arizona.

Jul 03, 2024

Franciscan Friars of California ask to extend abuse claim deadline

Franciscan Province of St. Barbara seeks to notify Native American tribes overlooked in announcement of clergy sex abuse claim deadline and extend deadline from July 19 to Aug 30.

After a sex abuse claimant filed a motion claiming the Archdiocese of Santa Fe is violating a non-monetary covenant it made with abuse survivors, the archdiocese is back in U.S. Bankruptcy Court at the Pete V. Domenici United States Courthouse in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola)

Apr 17, 2024

Santa Fe Archdiocese back in court as abuse survivor claims violation of settlement

The Archdiocese of Santa Fe is back in bankruptcy court after an abuse survivor has filed a motion alleging church officials are violating a key non-monetary agreement of their recent $121.5 million settlement with survivors.

The Mary Mother of Mankind Church was built overlooking the historic St. Michael's Mission, which was first established by Franciscan friars among the Navajo people in 1898. (Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola)

May 02, 2023

Navajo Catholics upset after Franciscans transfer historic mission to local diocese

Navajo Catholics in the U.S. Southwest are expressing upset over a decision by the local Franciscan province to transfer administration of an historic mission founded some 125 years ago by St. Katharine Drexel.

A mural decorates a building once part of the now defunct clergy treatment center operated by the Servants of the Paraclete in Jemez Springs, New Mexico.

Feb 22, 2023

New archive of Santa Fe clergy abuse documents hailed as unprecedented

An unprecedented public archive of clergy sexual abuse documents is being established at the University of New Mexico thanks to an agreement between abuse survivors and the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.

Jun 06, 2017