Priest's appeal over abuse case
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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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Victims in child abuse cases involving Church of England officials call for fresh inquiries into possible similar cases.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. Oct 22, 2004 - A former priest at the center of a notorious molestation case a decade ago has incurable cancer and should not be locked up indefinitely as a dangerous sexual predator, his lawyer said.
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The criminal case against a defrocked Roman Catholic priest at the center of the Boston Archdiocese sex scandal now hinges on the allegations of a single accuser.
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A prisoner says he needed medical help after hearing an alleged confession in the Michael Stone appeal.
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Roman Catholic bishops have spent more than two years trying to convince parishioners and the public that church leaders have learned the painful lessons from the crisis over clergy sex abuse.
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The PSNI appeals after being told to pay Â£45,000 to a photographer who suffered discrimination for marrying a Catholic.
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A judge indicated Tuesday he intends to make public the employment files of Roman Catholic priests accused of sexual abuse.
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A hearing into whether Catholic Church files can be handed over to an inquiry into child abuse is delayed.
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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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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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Pope John Paul II asks US bishops to give more guidance to Catholic priests, to avoid a repetition of the child sex abuse scandal.
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NEW YORK -- A Roman Catholic priest who has been charged with sexually abusing an 11-year-old altar boy committed the crimes while decades-old allegations against him were making headlines, prosecutors allege.
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Representatives of several black churches appealed to prosecutors Thursday to pursue hate-crime or civil-rights charges against six white people accused of torturing a black woman over several days.
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The allegations of a single accuser could determine the fate of one of the highest-profile figures to go to trial in the Roman Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal.
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Prosecutors told a judge Thursday that an alleged victim of defrocked priest Paul Shanley might refuse to testify if he is publicly identified during the upcoming sexual abuse trial. That would mean the end of the criminal case against one of the most notorious figures in the Boston Archdiocese's sex scandal, Assistant District Attorney Lynn Rooney said.
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A former Irish priest who disrupted the men&#39;s Olympic marathon in Athens has appeared in court on two counts of indecently assaulting a child.