A lawsuit from the U.S. aims to place blame for priest sexual abuse at the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church by claiming the Vatican controls leadership, fundraising and doctrine down to the lowest levels
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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.
A Mexican citizen is suing the Roman Catholic cardinals of Mexico City and Los Angeles over allegations they shuffled a Mexican pedophile priest between countries in the late 1980s.
An Indian priest who pleaded no contest to assaulting a 15-year-old girl in Florida and was found by an Associated Press investigation to be posted in Italy has given up his job at the Italian church, officials said Saturday.
2004 Chicago Parish Bulletin mentions Bhaskar
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Bishop Richard’s email discussing Vatican involvement
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Italian Diocese printout listing Bhaskar in a parish
Jane Doe Father’s email to Indian Bishop
Jane Doe Mother’s email to Pope Benedict XVI
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A Minnesota prosecutor directly appealed to Pope Benedict XVI for help Tuesday as she tries to get an Indian priest back to the United States to face sexual assault charges.
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.
The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citing concerns including “the good of the universal church,” according to a 1985 letter bearing his signature.
Vatican knew of pedophile priest convicted of molesting children in 1981.
The following is a translation of the letter, from its original Latin, to English, provided by AP.
Most Excellent Bishop
Having received your letter of September 13 of this year, regarding the matter of the removal from all priestly burdens pertaining to Rev Stephen Miller Kiesle in your diocese, it is my duty to share with you the following:
This court, although it regards the arguments presented in favour of removal in this case to be of grave significance, nevertheless deems it necessary to consider the good of the Universal Church together with that of the petitioner, and it is also u