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The archdiocese of Chicago has agreed to pay $3.9 million to settle six sexual abuse cases and on Tuesday released a bishop’s deposition that detailed the church’s failure to report the crimes and attempts to keep them secret

For the first time ever, the public is learning what a former top ranking aide to Cardinals Bernardin and George had to say about the abuse under oath.

http://www.bishopaccountability.org/

The Catholic Diocese of Green Bay has lost its insurance coverage in a civil suit allegeding fraud related to sexual assaults by a priest.

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.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport is considering a dwindling number of legal options, including a U.S. Supreme Court appeal, after the state’s high court refused to reconsider a ruling that would make public thousands of pages of documents detailing alleged sexual abuse by priests.

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.

One of Carlson’s earliest cases focused on the Rev. Thomas Adamson, who would emerge as one of the country’s most notorious pedophile priests. As instructed, Carlson reported Adamson’s abuses to his supervisor, the archbishop, who chose not to suspend Adamson.

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”.

An advocacy group simultaneously called for an investigation of Cretin Derham-Hall High School’s principal for releasing a previous alleged victim’s name.

A judge has ruled that one of two brothers who lost a priest molestation civil trial against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno this year can have a 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.

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.

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.