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The Lawsuit charges that St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church and hierarchical leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) knew/or should have known..

Press Conference Today Wednesday, June 30, 2010 – 1:00 P.M. Pacific [Omni Hotel, Downtown Los Angeles]   California man first to sue Vatican after U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Foreign Sovereign Immunity case against Holy See   Alleges cover-up of sexual abuse by high Catholic officials in the Vatican, superiors in the Salesian Society and Bishops affiliated with the high school in Bellflower   The priest, Father Titian Miani, was known to have sexually assaulted students at a Native American boarding school in Canada, in Italy, and also in the California

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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.

Victims, therapists and activists applaud novel move
 
Judge seeks financial restitution for child porn victim 
 
Illicit pixs of her at age 8 are among “most widely circulated” ever
 
Advocates hope that greater awareness of new federal law will help
 
Making kiddie porn cost, not pay, is best way to deter such crimes, groups say
 
WHAT
Holding large graphs and photos at a news conference, an expert, a therapist, an attorney and an abuse victim will
— praise a St. Paul judge for his unprecedented move to try and get financial restitut

Attorney Jeffrey Anderson to Hold Press Conference
2:30 PM Today
366 Jackson, St Paul

Area priest and archdiocese, according to complaint, knew Fr. David Hanser was a child molester from at least early 1970’s

Fraud lawsuit will be first by former student from St. John’s School for the Deaf

Police estimate that priest molested at least 26 LA kids in just 9 months

Victims get $1.7 million, disclosure & reforms.

Catholic group must make predators names public.

Order ignored signals that cleric was molesting, lawsuit says.

Whistleblower/victim says St. John’s violates promises of 2002 agreement

Support group wants one top official to resign and another to apologize for ‘recklessness’

Just four years ago, one of America’s highest-profile priests was living with and repeatedly molesting a teenager, according to a new civil lawsuit being filed today and discussed at a news conference.