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| 05/19/10 | | Ex-student claims abuse, sues St. John's Prep | | A former St. John's Prep student is suing the school, a monk who used to teach there and the Order of St. Benedict and St. John's Abbey, alleging a cover-up of sexual abuse.
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| 05/18/10 | | St. John's Abbey faces new abuse suit | | St. John's Abbey is accused of breaking a promise to the family of two boys allegedly abused by monk that he would not work with kids again. |
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| 05/11/10 | | Wis Man: Catholic School Enabled Pedophile Teacher | | A Wisconsin man who said he was abused 40 years ago by a teacher at a Catholic high school sued the school and church officials Tuesday, claiming they allowed the teacher continued access to children despite his apparent history of pedophilia.
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| 04/27/10 | | A Frenzied Pace for Lawyer Behind Vatican Suits | | Jeffrey R. Anderson, the lawyer whose pursuit of the Roman Catholic Church has been perhaps the loudest, is the center of his own tornado. As employees race in and out of his ornate offices, Mr. Anderson is planning a news conference in Los Angeles about an abusive priest, answering calls from the family of a victim of another from Florida, and preparing a lawsuit in Milwaukee naming the Vatican and the pope as defendants. And this is only a Monday. |
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| 04/26/10 | | One lawyer behind many allegations of Catholic Church abuse | | The last month has seen a blizzard of new sex abuse accusations against the Catholic Church from across the United States. Almost all of them -- and the intense media attention they've garnered -- can be traced to one man: a Minnesota lawyer named Jeff Anderson. |
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| Vatican: Lawsuit Naming Pope Has No Merit | | But the Minnesota lawyer who filed the lawsuit calls that response "predictable" and tells AOL News that it's the same argument he heard back in the 1980s when he first began suing U.S. dioceses and bishops over allegations they knew about priests sexually abusing young boys and chose to do nothing about it.
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| 04/11/10 | | Oakland Priest’s Accuser Describes Sexual Abuse | | A San Francisco woman who says she was molested by the Oakland priest at the center of a case that has raised questions about Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of sexually abusive clergy members described in vivid terms on Sunday how she was sexually abused and intimidated by her attacker. |
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| 04/08/10 | | Outrageous and Manipulative | | I think that sometimes these perpetrators actually think that we will not investigate their statements. See our new blog where we catch Fr. Jeyapaul in lies. Please leave a comment. |
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| 04/07/10 | | Vatican's Point Man on Abuse Was Sucessfully Sued by Whistleblowing Priest | | With Pope Benedict XVI in a stance of passive silence on the clergy sex abuse crisis, the Vatican strategy of attacking the news media has made the pope more vulnerable to criticism. Loyal Catholics, and even political leaders inclined to give the pontiff the benefit of the doubt, are wondering why he can't say what went wrong and how he will make structural changes. |
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| Priest accused of US abuse won't fight extradition | | A Roman Catholic priest charged with sexually assaulting a teenage parishioner in Minnesota said Tuesday he would willingly leave his native India and try to clear his name in the courts if the United States tried to extradite him. |
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| Priest Accused Of MN Abuse Still Working In India | | Top officials at the Vatican were warned more than four years ago about a Catholic priest later charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Minnesota, according to newly released Vatican correspondence, but to this day he continues to work in his home diocese in India. |
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| Catholic priest charged with assaulting 14-year-old girl in Minnesota still working in India | | Amato was secretary to Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which handles all abuse cases. In subsequent letters, Balke warned both Levada and a top Vatican official in the U.S. about Jeyapaul. "It is difficult for me to quantify the harm that this man has done to the dignity of the priesthood," Balke wrote to Levada on Dec. 21, 2006. |
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| 04/02/10 | | Exiled Pedophile Priest May Have Continued Abuse | | Donald Marshall, 45, of West Allis, Wis., said last week in an interview that Father Murphy had molested him at the Lincoln Hills School for Boys, a detention center near Boulder Junction |
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| 03/29/10 | | U.S. lawyer takes on Vatican over abuse cases | | Jeff Anderson has filed thousands of lawsuits alleging sex abuse by priests and won tens of millions of dollars for his clients, but he has had a bigger goal in mind for nearly two decades. He wants to bring his career-long legal crusade against misconduct in the Roman Catholic Church right to the top. |
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| Vatican ripped for its handling of Wisconsin abuse scandal | | A man who says he was among some 200 deaf boys allegedly molested by a priest in Wisconsin said Monday the Vatican’s defensive responses to revelations about the case make him feel like he did when he was 12, when no one would listen to him about the abuse. |
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| 03/25/10 | | Vatican halted trial for priest accused of abusing boys in Wis. | | Two Wisconsin bishops urged the Vatican office led by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger -- now Pope Benedict XVI -- to let them conduct a church trial against a priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys, but the Vatican ordered the process halted, church and Vatican documents show. |
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| Press Release: Records Obtained by St. Paul Law Firm Implicate Pope | | Attorneys will discuss long-hidden Catholic Church records obtained by a Minnesota law firm in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin case and then filed in the United States District Court in the case of John V. Doe vs. Holy See (State of the Vatican City)and highlighted in a page one story in today’s New York Times. The Documents seriously undermine the Pope’s credibility by revealing that the Pope and top aide kept 150 sex allegations vs. predator secret in 1998, and rebuffed 3 bishops who wanted the pedophile priests ousted.
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| Pope Allegedly Knew About Wis. Pedophile Priest | | Just days after Pope Benedict XVI chastised Irish bishops for covering up clerical sexual abuse in Ireland, new documents suggest he did nothing to discipline a Wisconsin priest he knew had molested scores of deaf boys -- and may have blocked a church trial in the case.
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| 03/24/10 | | Vatican Declined to Defrock U.S. Priest Who Abused Boys | | Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part of a lawsuit. |
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| 02/13/10 | | Merryfields can seek punitive damages | | A judge ruled Troy and Todd Merryfield can seek punitive damages for what they believe was an intentional cover-up of abuse by the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay. |
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| 01/22/10 | | Ruling in priest sex abuse case may set precedent | | The case involves a man identified in court papers as John Doe RG. Now a 44-year-old business executive, he contends that, as a boy, he was repeatedly molested by former Indianapolis priest Harry Monroe while he was a parishioner at St. Andrew Catholic Church. |
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| 01/18/10 | | White House Highlights Step Forward For Native American Women | | All Americans should be heartened by the recent announcement that the Department of Justice, under the leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder, is strengthening its commitment to fighting crimes of violence against Native American women. |
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| 01/14/10 | | Child Porn Initiative | | Jeff Anderson and his legal associates have launched a ”Child Pornography Initiative.” Anderson is a Minnesota Attorney who has represented countless victims of child sexual abuse |
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| 12/09/09 | | Lawsuit targets St. John's Prep School, abbey | | A former St. John’s Prep School student sued the school and St. John’s Abbey on Tuesday, alleging fraud for allowing a monk to continue interacting with students after they received an allegation of sexual misconduct against the monk.
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| 12/07/09 | | Archdiocese confirms Weakland shredded criminal evidence | | In an unusual Friday email sent to priests, the archdiocese of Milwaukee has confirmed that former archbishop Rembert Weakland shredded on a weekly basis criminal evidence contained in secret reports and investigations of sex crimes by priests. |
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| 12/06/09 | | A Bishop’s Words | | In the end it was not the power of repentance or compassion that compelled the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport, Conn., to release more than 12,000 pages of documents relating to lawsuits alleging decades of sexual abuse of children by its priests. |
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| 11/02/09 | | Filling of another Raimond Rose Lawsuit | | Mini-Movie about the filing of a sexual abuse lawsuit involving Brother Raimond Rose in Fargo, North Dakota filed by attorney Patrick Noaker, Jeff Anderson & Associates. |
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| 10/21/09 | | Catholic school teacher sued over 1970s abuse in Fargo | | A former student at a Fargo Catholic high school filed a lawsuit Tuesday against his former teacher, the school and the Fargo Roman Catholic Diocese, saying he was sexually assaulted on a school-sponsored trip in 1977. |
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| 10/19/09 | | Bankruptcy filing delays church sex abuse case | | A bankruptcy filing by the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington was the best way to ensure reconciliation and compensation for all victims of clergy sexual abuse in the diocese, the bishop said Monday. |
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| 10/10/09 | | Diocese Should Stop Keeping Secrets | | It's well past time for the Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport to stop fighting the court-ordered release of documents concerning sexual abuse by priests. |
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| 10/09/09 | | "Fake" Catholic Deacon Accused of Molestation | | A group representing victims of clergy abuse said the local Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis didn't do enough to protect parishioners from a phony deacon accused of molesting a child. |
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| 10/07/09 | | Diocese abuse victim gets help after admiting to being suicidal in court | | Davenport, IA - The Davenport Diocese went back to court Wednesday accused of not complying with its settlement for victims of sexual abuse. Lawyers for the Davenport Diocese and those representing abuse victims battled it out in Federal Court, but it was the battle of one victim that captured the courts attention.
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| 10/06/09 | | High Court Won't Block Release Of Priest Sex Abuse Documents | | The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport has lost every legal battle so far to keep secret the sex abuse cases involving priests, but Bishop William Lori said Monday that he has no regrets about taking this case all the way to the nation's highest court |
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| 10/01/09 | | Foreign Policy: The Vatican And Child Abuse | | I am beginning to think that John Edwards, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, Octomom, and Jon Gosselin have joined together to form their own public relations firm ... and that their first client is the Vatican. |
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| 09/30/09 | | Other churches also have abuse problem: Vatican | | Vatican UN Observer Archbishop Silvano Tomasi has lashed out at criticism over the Church's handling of the pedophilia crisis saying the Catholic Church is "busy cleaning its own house" and that the problems with clerical sex abuse in other churches are as big, if not bigger. |
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| 09/25/09 | | Illinois Supreme Court throws out clergy sex abuse lawsuit | | The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit from a former student who claims he was sexually abused by Belleville-area priest Kenneth Roberts 25 years ago, saying the plaintiff waited too long to file the suit after confronting his memories. |
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| 09/08/09 | | 2 brothers sue archdiocese, saying priest assaulted them | | Two adult brothers who contend they were sexually assaulted by a Waukesha County Catholic priest when they were boys sued the Milwaukee Archdiocese on Tuesday, saying it knew Father David Hanser had a history of molesting children and failed to warn their family. |
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| 08/31/09 | | New: Accused abuser worked at Pacelli | | A teacher accused of sexually abusing students at Catholic schools in Minnesota during the 1970s taught at Pacelli High School, according to the teaching order that administered the school at the time. |
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| 08/27/09 | | Navajo Tribal Courts Should Hear Navajo Child Sexual Abuse Lawsuits | | Today, we filed legal briefs in Navajo Nation Tribal Court relating to two childhood sexual abuse lawsuits. Since we filed the lawsuits in the Navajo Court, the Defendants desperately have attempted to get the cases removed from the Navajo Court and instead handled in state or federal court. |
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| 08/21/09 | | Priest abuse hearing hinges on memory, time | | John Doe RG, as he is known in court papers, always struggled with trusting people.
Personal relationships usually lasted no more than a year. His second-guessing of his bosses sent him hopping from job to job.
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| 08/14/09 | | Former deaf-school student sues archdiocese | | A civil lawsuit filed Thursday against the Milwaukee Archdiocese is the first by a former student of St. John's School for the Deaf in St. Francis, where the late Father Lawrence Murphy is believed to have molested as many as 200 boys from 1950 to 1974. |
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| 07/30/09 | | The New York Catholic Conference's Aggressive Bid to Stop Reform of Child Sex Abuse Laws | | Based on an unscientific survey of everyone with whom I have spoken in recent months, I have come to the conclusion that there is an untold story that would shock the vast majority of Americans. Pieces of it have appeared in various publications, but never the whole story. It is the story of the New York Catholic Conference's outrageous measures to stop the reform of New York's laws that govern child sex abuse. |
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| 07/16/09 | | Diocese loses insurance | | The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay has lost its insurance coverage in a civil suit allegeding fraud related to sexual assaults by a priest. |
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| 07/15/09 | | Conviction ‘cathartic' for family of victim | | A former altar boy who was abused as a teen by a Roman Catholic priest in Germantown said Monday that he had the safety of other children in mind when he went public with his story. |
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| 07/06/09 | | Woman sues Crookston diocese | | A woman sued the Catholic Diocese of Crookston on Thursday for more than $50,000, alleging that in 2004, when she was 15, her parish priest in Greenbush, Minn., the Rev. Joseph Jeyapaul, sexually abused her. |
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| 06/25/09 | | Jane Doe v. Wiggins | | Principal of St. Mark's High School Failed to Report Abuse by Priest in Late 1980s.
Willful Cover-up Led to Years of Shame and Self Blame for Abused Girl.
Predator Removed from Ministry in 2003 After Lay Review Board Deemed Allegations Credible.
Officials of Diocese of Wilmington Still Minimizing Criminal Acts by Priest as a "Fetish".
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| 06/15/09 | | Clergy sex victim win new trial | | A man who was sexually assaulted as a child by a Fresno diocesan priest has won a new trial but his brother has not.
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| New trial OKd in clergy abuse suit | | A Fresno judge ordered a new trial Friday in a lawsuit brought by two brothers who accused the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno of failing to protect them from a Wasco priest who sexually abused them decades ago.
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| 06/10/09 | | Judge to rule on new Fresno diocese trial | | A judge said he will rule this week on whether to give two brothers a new trial against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno because of newly discovered evidence that backs their claim that they were molested by a priest, and that the diocese did nothing about it. |
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| Sex-abuse victims group rebuffs Weakland’s naiveté claim | | Advocates for victims of Catholic clergy sex abuse on Monday released documents they say refute claims by retired Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland that he did not understand early on the criminal nature of the abuse or its long-term effects on victims. |
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| 05/18/09 | | St. Paul Lawyer Continutes To Sue Catholic Church | | Jeff Anderson, the St. Paul lawyer who's made a career of suing the Roman Catholic church over sexual abuse by priests, likes to draw a link between that crusade and his youthful devotion to the civil rights and anti-war movements. |
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| 05/15/09 | | Ex-Archbishop Speaks About Catholic Church and Homosexuality | | In spring 2002, as the scandal over sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests was escalating, the long career of Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland of Milwaukee, one of the church’s most venerable voices for change, went up in flames one May morning. |
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| 05/14/09 | | Third priest sex abuse lawsuit filed | | A third priest abuse lawsuit has been filed in the Navajo Nation court system against Charles “Chuck” Cichanowicz, a former Franciscan priest who once served at Catholic parishes in St. Michaels and Shiprock. |
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| Diocese of Allentown, Pa., sued in Delaware court | | A Pennsylvania woman Wednesday filed suit against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Allentown, Pa., in Superior Court of New Castle County, alleging child sexual abuse by a now-deceased Allentown, Pa., priest -- some of which she says occurred when she lived in Smyrna. |
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| 03/26/09 | | Sex-abuse victim sues Madison School District | | More than 25 years after his teacher sexually molested him, a former Cherokee Middle School student sued the Madison School District, claiming the district should have known about the teacher’s history of molesting students at other schools. |
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| LA Cardinal testifies in valley church abuse case | | Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles made a rare court appearance to testify that he knew nothing of sexual abuse two brothers claim they suffered years ago at the hands of a priest in rural central California. |
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| 03/10/09 | | In legal first, ex-Portland man wins right to sue Vatican | | Oregon has found itself at the center of an international story after a federal appellate court ruled that a former Portland man can sue the Vatican in a U.S. court over his alleged molestation as a teenager by a parish priest. |
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| 03/05/09 | | St. Paul lawyer takes on Vatican | | A federal Appeals Court says the Vatican can be sued for sexual abuse if it knowingly reassigns priests who have been accused of such acts in their previous parishes. |
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| 02/17/09 | | L.A. sex abuse investigation now a federal case | | A recently impaneled federal grand jury is investigating how the Los Angeles archdiocese managed accusations that dozens of priests molested hundreds of teenagers and younger children over many years. |
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| 02/10/09 | | No Jurisdiction Over Mexican Diocese, Court Rules | | This district’s Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against Cardinal Norberto Rivera of Mexico City and a Mexican diocese for allegedly conspiring to protect a priest accused of sexual misconduct due to a lack of jurisdiction. |
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| 02/06/09 | | Nine men to share $1.7 million from Catholic order that admits sex abuse | | David Bidney trusted the man he knew as "Father Jerry" at St. Odilia Catholic parish in Shoreview. He was 10 years old when the Rev. Gerald Funcheon started sexually abusing him in the early 1970s, he said Thursday, bribing him with ice cream from the Dairy Queen on Lexington Avenue and then molesting him |
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| 02/05/09 | | Nine clergy sex abuse cases are settled | | Victims get $1.7 million, disclosure & reforms.
Catholic group must make predators names public.
Order ignored signals that cleric was molesting, lawsuit says.
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| 11/12/08 | | Group outs top 10 priests accused of sex abuse | | Three Catholic priests with ties to Maryland are among the nation's most dangerous sexual predators, according to a list released Tuesday by a group of clergy sex abuse victims demanding greater accountability from the Catholic Church. |
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| 10/23/08 | | Cardinal's dismaying lapse on sex offender | | For several months, Cardinal Francis George appeared to have learned from his failures in dealing with the child sex abuse scandal afflicting the Archdiocese of Chicago. |
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| 09/23/08 | | Lawsuit rejected in case of priest who killed two | | A wrongful death lawsuit filed by Carsten and Sally Ellison of Barron against the Catholic Diocese of Superior for the murder of their son by a priest was dismissed Tuesday afternoon in a summary judgment by Eau Claire County Judge Paul Lenz. |
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| 09/10/08 | | Archdiocese accused of helping sex abuser flee | | The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis is accused of helping a priest flee to his native Ecuador after he was accused of molesting a child while working in Minnesota, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court. |
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| Suburban church is hit with abuse suit | | A 46-year-old Streamwood man has accused his former priest of sexually abusing him more than 30 years ago and Greek Orthodox church officials of attempting to cover it up, according to a lawsuit that marks the fifth allegation against the defrocked priest |
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| 08/22/08 | | Mom wants cardinal to quit | | Reading her Sun-Times last week, Diane Houston lingered over a prison photo of the Rev. Norbert Maday, his mug shot showing the convicted sex abuser with a black eye and a swollen lip. |
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| Cardinal tried to spring sex abuser, then changed view | | Cardinal Francis George acknowledged Tuesday that he and other Archdiocese of Chicago officials had worked to reduce the prison sentencef sex-abusing priest Norbert Maday, who is believed to have molested children dozens of times. |
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| Cardinal lifts the veil on abuses | | George announces $12.7 million payout to victims of priest attacks, discloses his sworn deposition and says: 'I have to accept the blame' |
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| 03/05/08 | | School sued over teen's sexual abuse | | The parents of a teenage girl who was sexually abused by her high school track and volleyball coach have sued the teacher and the school district, claiming
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| 01/25/08 | | Archbishop Buechlein's cancer is rare at his age | | The cancer diagnosed in Indianapolis Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein is a relatively rare form that is especially unusual in people older than 60, a medical expert said Thursday, but is a kind that's curable in a majority of cases. |
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| 01/10/08 | | Judge gives man go-ahead in suit against dioceses | | Ramsey County District Judge Kathleen Gearin has ruled that a man who says he was molested in the 1980s by former Catholic priest Thomas Adamson can seek punitive damages in his lawsuit against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Diocese of Winona.
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| 12/14/07 | | Ex-priest admits abusing boys | | In deposition, Harry Monroe describes using drugs, playing sex games while serving in Indianapolis Archdiocese |
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| 11/19/07 | | More sexual abuse allegations surface against former priest | | Allegations that the Rev. Aaron Cote sexually abused two young Massachusetts boys, though reported to police more than a year ago, were never mentioned in a local lawsuit against the former Montgomery County priest's religious order that was settled this summer.
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| 11/13/07 | | Former priest faces sexual abuse civil suit | | A former Lafayette Catholic priest is the target of a sexual abuse civil suit. Though he no longer wears the Roman collar, he still works with youth and adults in Indiana. |
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| 11/08/07 | | 37-year-old alleges sexual abuse by priest | | A 37-year-old Navajo from Shiprock this week did something no other Navajo has ever done - take a Catholic priest to tribal court on allegations of sexual abuse. |
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| Abbott Klassen responds to review board criticism | | A St. John's Abbey priest whose role on a review board brought criticism last month hasn't served on the board since early 2007, according to a letter issued this week by the leader of St. John's Abbey in Collegeville.
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| 11/03/07 | | Convicted Priest Faces New Abuse Charge | | A retired Jesuit priest convicted of molesting two boys was taken into custody Friday on a charge that he molested a boy he took on a trip to Switzerland and Austria seven years ago, prosecutors announced. |
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| Prominent Jesuit Is Target of New Federal Charges | | A prominent Jesuit priest accused of sexually victimizing teenage boys who were his valets as he traveled the world leading Roman Catholic spiritual retreats was taken into federal custody yesterday in Chicago.
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| 10/17/07 | | Suit Dismissed Against Mexican Cardinal | | A judge dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday against Mexico City Cardinal Norberto Rivera, who had been accused of conspiring with Roman Catholic officials in the U.S. to transfer a priest accused of sexual abuse |
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| 10/03/07 | | Unforgiven | | The diocese of New Ulm knew Father David Roney was a pedophile when it sent him to live among orphan schoolchildren in Guatemala |
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| 09/06/07 | | Judge pushes San Diego diocese to settle | | When the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego filed for bankruptcy six months ago, it hoped to find shelter from potentially embarrassing and costly lawsuits from people claiming they were sexually abused by priests.
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| 08/24/07 | | Dominicans to Pay Man $1.2 Million in Lawsuit | | A group of Catholic friars has agreed to pay $1.2 million to a 20-year-old man who accused a one-time Washington area priest of sexual abuse when the man was a teenager and living in Germantown. |
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| Order Settles Md. Abuse Suit for $1.2M | | WASHINGTON (AP) -- A former altar boy who accused a Roman Catholic priest of molesting him more than five years ago has reached a $1.2 million settlement with the priest's religious order, according to the man's parents and attorneys.
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| 08/19/07 | | Lawmaker wants to give abuse victims time to sue | | In most states, including Nevada, victims of sexual abuse by priests are unable to collect large financial settlements from local Catholic dioceses because most cases date back to the 1960s and 1970s and the statute of limitations for filing civil complaints has expired. |
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| 02/04/07 | | Legal Legacy | | This year marks the fifth anniversary of The Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of clergy sexual abuse.
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| 01/28/07 | | Abusive Priest Slipped Under Radar | | For years Thomas Adamson's kindly face was a familiar sight at Oakwood Villa nursing home, assisting with activities for elderly residents and offering the caring, personal touch of a priest. |
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| 12/02/06 | | Archdiocese in Los Angeles Settles Claims of Sex Abuse | | LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to a $60 million settlement of claims by 45 people against clergymen who had sexually abused them as children, the archdiocese announced Friday.
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| 11/23/06 | | Man Files Sex-abuse Suit Against Priest | | A former altar boy filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Duluth accusing a retired priest of molesting him and accusing the bishop of the Superior Diocese of taking no action on several complaints about the priest. |
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| 10/23/06 | | Isle Bishop Named in Suit | | Honolulu Catholic Bishop Larry Silva is one of 178 American bishops named in a lawsuit that seeks disclosure of the names of 5,000 Catholic priests identified as child molesters, with the action taken against each one by their bishops. |
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| 10/21/06 | | Accused Priest Flees From Law in U.S. and Mexico | | TEHUACÁN, Mexico - For two decades, dozens of children have accused the Rev. Nicolás Aguilar of molesting or brutally raping them. He faces an indictment charging sexual abuse in Los Angeles and at least five formal complaints in Mexico. Yet at 65 he remains at large, still working as a priest in villages here. |
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| 10/07/06 | | Film on Pedophile Priest Revives Focus on Cardinal | | A documentary film featuring an extraordinarily candid interview with a former priest convicted of molesting children has heightened interest among law enforcement officials here in considering a criminal case against Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, says a prosecutor who has been investigating sexual abuse cases involving priests. |
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| 10/02/06 | | Documentary: Priest and Predator | | Oct. 9, 2006 issue - "Deliver Us From Evil," a gripping new documentary opening in theaters next week, profiles Father Oliver O'Grady, a convicted pedophile who spent 22 years molesting children in parishes throughout California, where he served as their priest. |
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| 09/27/06 | | Mexican Police Search for Accused Priest | | MEXICO CITY (AP) - Police in the Mexican state of Puebla began searching Tuesday for a Roman Catholic priest accused of molesting children in Los Angeles, officials said. |
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| 09/21/06 | | Suit Targets Bishops on Sex Claims | | The family of a Wisconsin man murdered after he planned to confront a Roman Catholic priest about child molestation has sued 177 of the nation's Catholic bishops to force public disclosure of accused priests. |
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| Sex Abuse Victim Under Fire from Catholic Church | | MEXICO CITY, Sep 21 (IPS) - Joaquín Aguilar has been seeking justice since 1994, when he says he was sexually abused by a Roman Catholic priest in Mexico who is accused of molesting some 60 other boys as well. |
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| 09/19/06 | | Diocese Must Pay $1.5M to Abuse Victim | | A Scott County jury awarded Michl Uhde $1.5 million from the Diocese of Davenport on Monday for sexual abuse he suffered as a child, but Uhde said it's answers he wants, not cash.
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| Man Alleging Priest Abuse Sues Cardinals | | LOS ANGELES - A 25-year-old Mexican man who says he was raped by a priest filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Roman Catholic church officials in Los Angeles and Mexico, claiming they conspired to hide evidence to protect the priest. |
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| 08/20/06 | | Abuse victim quits abbey review board | | ST. CLOUD, MINN. -- A sexual abuse victim resigned in protest Friday from an external review board formed by St. John's Abbey in response to the clergy sexual abuse scandal. |
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| 08/10/06 | | Former Regina principal sued again | | Former Regina High School principal Lawrence Soens has been sued again on claims that he allegedly sexually abused 13 former students. |
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| 06/14/06 | | 4 men claiming abuse sue ex-priest, archdiocese | | The Archdiocese of Chicago ignored repeated warnings that the Rev. Robert Mayer was abusing children, moving him between parishes where he molested children for years, a new lawsuit alleges. |
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| 06/04/06 | | Judge denies Vatican's motion in abuse case | | PORTLAND, Ore.-- A federal judge ruled Wednesday that a sex abuse lawsuit against the Vatican can move forward with its claim that the Holy See bears responsibility for a priest who was transferred from city to city, including Chicago, even though he was known to be a molester. |
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| 05/25/06 | | 2 brothers sue Joliet Catholic diocese | | Suit alleges sex abuse by priests in '70s, '80s
Two brothers filed lawsuits against the Catholic Diocese of Joliet Wednesday, alleging that two priests at a Mokena church sexually abused them in the late 1970s and early 1980s. |
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| 05/18/06 | | Man sues archdiocese, says convicted priest abused him | | A Wheeling man filed a $250,000 civil lawsuit Wednesday against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, alleging that a priest molested him as a child and church officials purposefully hid the abuse from police and parishioners |
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| 05/03/06 | | 3 sue archdiocese, priest | | Three men accused Rev. Norbert Maday of sexually abusing them more than 20 years ago at St. Bede the Venerable in Chicago and Our Lady of the Ridge in Chicago Ridge in a civil suit filed Tuesday against the priest and the Chicago Archdiocese in Cook County Circuit Court. |
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| 04/27/06 | | A Family's Crusade | | Thousands of Catholic priests stand accused of sexual abuse. And a Cross Plains couple believes if the church were more open about them, a family member would still be alive. They believe their case may be the most heinous in the history of the sex abuse scandal. |
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| 04/25/06 | | Man Alleges Past Abuse In Local Catholic Church | | (AP) St. Paul A Twins Cities man alleged in a lawsuit against two diocese of the Roman Catholic Church that he was abused by a priest at Risen Savior parish in Apple Valley, Minn., during the 1980s, when he was an altar boy. |
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