Doubts cast on church abuse memoir
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Harrowing tales of physical and sexual   abuse at the heart of a best-selling memoir about growing up   inside Ireland's Roman Catholic institutions are simply not   true, the author's family said on Tuesday.
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An Iraqi woman who was granted refugee status in the United States after saying that she had been imprisoned, tortured and sexually assaulted in Iraq during the 1990s appears to have made false claims.
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Newspaper says judge considering whether to allow journals to be used as evidence in Madeleine case.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. - When scuffling sisters brought their family squabble into the Assemblies of Jesus Church, the preacher says the devil came, too. The Rev. Clarence June Love was just about to begin his Sunday service to a congregation of less than a dozen on Jan.
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The sexual abuse scandal in the U.S. Roman Catholic Church that rocked Boston six years ago and rippled across the country before the latest after-shock in Los Angeles does not appear to have markedly thinned the church's ranks or the money it takes in.
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Mother Teresa&#39;s doubts over the existence of God, revealed in a book to be published next week, showed she was &quot;one of us,&quot; Cardinal Angelo Scola, the patriarch of Venice, said Saturday.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  - The lawyer for defrocked  priest Paul Shanley derided his accuser's memory on Tuesday as  arguments began in a child rape case at the heart of the U.S.  Catholic Church abuse scandal.
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New papers cast doubt on Vatican claims about when it learned of the atrocities at Auschwitz.
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Cardinal Roger Mahony has been considered a voice for the dispossessed ever since he supported farmworkers' rights in the 1960s. But he draws sharp criticism from those who feel he protects the church at the expense of sexual abuse victims and others who disapprove of his fight to keep internal church documents secret.
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Victims in child abuse cases involving Church of England officials call for fresh inquiries into possible similar cases.
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An inquiry into the way sex abuse in the Catholic Church is tackled finds progress has been made.
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Roman Catholic bishops in England and Wales rejected as false and misleading a BBC documentary about what it said was a cover-up of child sexual abuse under a system enforced by Pope Benedict XVI in his previous job.
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A woman who claims she was abused in a Catholic children's home loses a bid to sue the religious order which ran it.
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Between the time Roman Catholic Church officials first learned in 1997 of allegations that the Rev. Joseph Byrns had molested two altar boys 30 years ago and finally removed him in June, the cleric allegedly abused another altar boy, law ...
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A Catholic bishop is asked to explain his decision to keep a priest in his parish after a sex abuse allegation.
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A lawyer for the victims of abusive priests discusses Cardinal Mahony, the record Los Angeles settlementÂ  and the issue that nearly derailed negotiations with the Roman Catholic Church
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An Italian magazine report which sought to prove that what some priests tell Catholics in the confessional is not always what the Church preaches in public has enraged the Vatican.