Boston Archdiocese Gets New Abuse Claims
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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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Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Boston and Springfield issued advisories to parishioners in recent weeks telling them that if they have the flu or
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The 16 churches the Archdiocese of Boston put up for sale this week are worth about $28 million, according to local tax assessors.
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Lawyers for hundreds of alleged victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests estimate that their clients' claims could cost the Archdiocese of Los Angeles more than &#36;1.5 billion, the largest amount ever paid out by a diocese, according to court documents.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. A former Roman Catholic bishop has been indicted on child rape charges in Massachusetts. Prosectutors are accusing Thomas Dupre (doo-PRAY&#39;) of molesting two boys in the 1970s while he was a parish priest.
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A Roman Catholic diocese in California has made a record settlement in 87 lawsuits by people who claimed they were abused, a source close to the case said on Friday.
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PORTLAND, Oregon  - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, will pay about $75 million to settle at least 170 claims of sexual abuse by its priests as part of a revised bankruptcy reorganization plan, according to legal documents.
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Reports that acknowledge the mistreatment of prisoners was more widespread than previously disclosed have served to undercut earlier portrayals of the abuse.
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The Archdiocese of Newark has agreed to pay &#36;1.1 million to nine people who sued the diocese over alleged sexual abuse by priests. The settlement, announced Friday, carries no admission of wrongdoing on the part of the archdiocese or any priest.
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The cardinals of two of the most   important Roman Catholic dioceses in North America were accused   in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday of allowing a priest wanted for   multiple sex abuse to flee California for Mexico.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Bishop Thomas Dupre, the former head of the Springfield Diocese, was indicted Monday on child rape charges, accused of molesting two boys in the 1970s, the county prosecutor said...
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A Roman Catholic diocese in  California has made a record settlement in 87 lawsuits by  people who claimed they were abused, a source close to the case  said on Friday.
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New charges were filed against a pastor on Monday amid the expansion of an investigation into allegations that leaders of two reclusive church communes sexually abused girls.
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Federal prosecutors in Boston have made a name for themselves chasing healthcare fraud. There's a new case on their calendar.
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PORTLAND, Ore.  - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese  of Portland will launch an advertising campaign this week to  encourage people sexually abused by priests in Oregon to come  forward, according to a church spokesman.
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New photos showing possible abuse of Iraqi prisoners have surfaced, and they predate the huge scandal that erupted over similar activity at Iraq&#39;s Abu Ghraib prison.
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A man who says he was molested as a boy by Paul Shanley, the now-defrocked priest at the center of the Boston Archdiocese sex scandal, tearfully testified Wednesday that Shanley would pull him from catechism classes and rape and fondle him in the church pews, confessional and rectory.