A federal judge in Oregon ruled Thursday that the
Vatican must respond to certain requests for information from a man who says he
was molested by a priest in the 1960s.
The man known in court documents as John V. Doe filed suit eight years ago.
He seeks to hold the Vatican liable for the abuse he said he suffered from the
Rev. Andrew Ronan, who died in 1992.
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U.S. Federal District Court order is first ever compelling Vatican to produce documents in clergy abuse cover-up case Judge:Clergy abuse victim entitled to “jurisdictional discovery” in John V. Doe v. Holy See (St. Paul, Minnesota USA)
The Vatican has been served with court papers related to allegations in a
sexual abuse case. St. Paul attorney Jeff Anderson said this week he was
notified that the papers were successfully filed through official diplomatic
channels.
The lawsuit was filed nearly a year ago in federal court on behalf of Terry
Kohut, now of Chicago. It claims Pope Benedict and two other top Vatican
officials knew about allegations of sexual abuse at St. John’s School for the
Deaf outside Milwaukee, and called off internal punishment of the accused
priest, the late Rev. Lawrence Murphy.
The Vatican has been served with court papers stemming
from decades-old allegations of sexual abuse against a now-deceased priest at a
Wisconsin school for the deaf.Jeff Anderson, an attorney for the man
making the allegations, said he had been notified the papers were filed through
official diplomatic channels.”Every time we make a step forward, as long
as that takes, we are going in the right direction,” Anderson said. “And the
direction we’re headed is a measure of accountability. We really believe that we
need to put some heat on the Vatican to bring some light.”
U.S. Department of State confirms service through diplomatic channels Vatican sent original federal court’s service back saying it was “undesired…
Yesterday the Creditors’ Committee in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Bankruptcy
proceedings asked the Court to hire a forensic accounting firm to scrutinize the
Archdiocese and Archbishop Timothy Dolan’s transfer of millions of dollars in
the years leading up to the bankruptcy. The forensic accountants the
Creditor’s Committee is recommending are experts in reviewing financial affairs
of organizations, including transfers of money by the organization.
In spite of the fact that the Philadelphia Archdiocese secretly continued to allow three dozen credibly acused offenders to remain…
At a conference in Milwaukee this week, Diarmuid Martin, the Archbishop
of Dublin, Ireland, provided a powerful message to those in attendance
when he said, “Only the truth sets us free.” And, that the church must
be “willing to tell the truth and take ownership of the truth, even when
the truth is unpleasant.”
It was one of the more searing allegations in the recent Philadelphia grand
jury report on clergy sex abuse:
A Bristol Township man killed himself after the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
refused to believe that a priest had molested him when he was an altar boy.
On Wednesday, relatives of the man, Daniel Neill, became the latest to sue
the archdiocese over its response to abuse victims. Neill shot himself in June
2009.
“It’s a wrongful death is what it is,” said Jeff Anderson, a lawyer for
Neill’s family.
The grand jury cited the handling of Neill’s complaint as one of three …
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Press Release
April 5, 2011
Wrongful Death Claim to Be
Filed Against Philadelphia Archdiocese Wednesday
(Philadelphia) Attorneys for the family of “Ben”, the 36 year-old
former St. Mark Parish altar boy whose
tragic story of sexual abuse,
rejection and suicide was told in the recent Philadelphia Grand Jury Report
on clergy abuse in the
Archdiocese of Philadelphia, will file a wrongful death lawsuit against the
diocese
in the Court of Common Pleas,
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday, April 6, 2011.
The following St…
AS A Catholic priest in voluntary exile from the
Diocese of Oakland since March 15, 2005, I decided a year ago to stand in public
solidarity with those being hurt the most by my church. Every Sunday I stand
outside Christ the Light Cathedral in Oakland with a sign that reads:
“Structural reform now! Include the Excluded: Women, Abuse Survivors, Gay
Persons.”
One recent Sunday a young man approached, read my sign
and said to me: “I have a better wording for your sign: (explitive) the pope.”
Another passerby said to me, “Why reform the Catholic Church? Why not just shut
it down…
The identities of 17 monks who have faced “credible allegations of sexual
abuse” or other misconduct were made public Monday, representing a break in the
secrecy that has long surrounded most Minnesota clergy abuse cases.
The names were released by St. John’s Abbey of Collegeville as part of a
settlement of clergy abuse lawsuits announced on Monday by St. Paul attorney
Jeff Anderson.
Four men who claim they were molested by a Humboldt County priest in the 1980s have dropped their case against the Catholic Diocese of Santa Rosa. But only so they can expand their target to include “an international conspiracy” that extends to Ireland, their attorneys said.The new suit will take aim not only the local diocese, but the Archdiocese of Dublin and the Catholic order that treated the priest for pedophilia, attorney Joseph George said Wednesday.
The news from
Philadelphia today is that Cardinal Justin Rigali has suspended two additional
priests because of credible allegations that they have engaged in sexual abuse
of children.