A man who was an altar boy at a Southside parish 30 years ago finally heard the Archdiocese of Indianapolis publicly acknowledge Monday that his former priest was a molester.
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The Archdiocese, which is named in the lawsuit filed in Ramsey County, says the man was never a clergyman.
In deposition, Harry Monroe describes using drugs, playing sex games while serving in Indianapolis Archdiocese
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, has reached a $37 million settlement to compensate victims of sexual abuse by clergy members and let the diocese emerge from bankruptcy, the two sides announced yesterday.
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It also would end statutes of limitation
The boys called them the party priests.
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.
A judge dismissed a lawsuit Friday that accused Mexico City Cardinal Norberto Rivera of conspiring with Roman Catholic officials in the United States to shelter an a suspected pedophile priest.
The convicted sexual abuser Rev. Donald McGuire plans to fight the Jesuits’ decision to dismiss him from the order.