More join abuse suit against nuns
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As a child at the Boston School for the Deaf from 1955 to 1967, Penny Braddock couldn&#39;t hear, but she could see.
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh has voluntarily set up a $1.25 million fund to aid the victims of 32 cases of clergy sexual abuse, an attorney for the victims said on Monday.
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Girls at a Mississippi detention center were sometimes shackled for 12 hours a day and subjected to "horrendous physical and sexual abuse," a youth advocacy group claims in a federal lawsuit.
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The Vatican has reported a further dramatic fall in the number of Roman Catholic monks and nuns worldwide.
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Lawyers for the primates asserted that the nine animals had been mistreated at the Primarily Primates sanctuary in San Antonio and asked a judge to send them to a new sanctuary.
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New plays by Michael Murphy and John Patrick Shanley explore the reaction of church members to suspected sex abuse by priests.
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The Archdiocese of Boston has received at least 140 new reports of sexual abuse by priests, but said it will not negotiate the claims until it resolves disputes with its insurers over payment of last year's &#36;85 million settlement.
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Priests suspected of sexually abusing children but protected from expulsion by Catholic law are being offered a choice in the New York Archdiocese: Enter a lifelong supervision program or leave the church.
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As the Roman Catholic Church struggles to repair its image in the wake of sex abuse scandals, one issue church leaders face is what to do with priests accused of abuse.
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Cardinal Justin Rigali is calling together hundreds of priests in the Philadelphia Archdiocese to hear from two people who were sexually abused by Roman Catholic clerics.
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The day after the sentencing of one of the most notorious figures in this region's three-year-old clergy abuse crisis, lawmakers and victims advocates said Wednesday they are building momentum to repeal statutes of limitations on sex crimes that have prevented other abusers from facing lawsuits and prosecution.
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PORTLAND, Oregon  - The Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, has settled most of the 175 sex abuse claims filed against it, bringing it closer to emerging from bankruptcy, judges involved in mediating the claims said on Monday.
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Pentecostal women are demanding more of their husbands and themselves as they move beyond civil war.
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Two detectives who investigated one man's sexual abuse claims against a now-defrocked priest testified that they found evidence of other victims &#151; an accusation that drew howls from defense attorneys.
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Buddhist nuns joined the growing protests against Myanmar's ruling generals on Sunday, a day after a dramatic appearance by detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi to pray with monks now leading the marches.
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When the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego filed for bankruptcy six months ago, it hoped to find shelter from potentially embarrassing and costly lawsuits from people claiming they were sexually abused by priests.
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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.