Local Catholic Bishop Named in Unprecedented Child Molestation Lawsuit
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DENVER, Sept. 22  /PRNewswire/ -- Archbishop Charles Chaput, the head of the Denver Catholic Archdiocese has been served with and named as a defendant in an unprecedented civil child sex abuse lawsuit brought by the family of a murdered Wisconsin man.
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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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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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WASHINGTON, DC - A bishop whose diocese is filing for Bankruptcy Court protection and a cardinal who is well-connected at the Vatican were elected Monday to lead US Roman Catholic bishops through the rest of a decade indelibly marked by the church&#39;s child
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America's Roman Catholic bishops chose a new president Monday who has released the names of priests accused of molesting children and reached out to victims but who also plans to seek bankruptcy protection for his diocese because of abuse claims.
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The nation's largest Roman Catholic archdiocese said Friday it will pay $60 million to settle 45 sex abuse lawsuits, the largest payout yet by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and among the biggest resulting from the molestation crisis that has plagued the church.
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Paul R. Shanley, whose name figured prominently in the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Archdiocese of Boston, could be sentenced to life in prison.
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Overwhelmed by sexual abuse lawsuits involving priests, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane today became the third in the nation to file for bankruptcy protection.
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US Roman Catholic bishops elect a new president, whose diocese is mired in child abuse claims.
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson, faced with possible multimillion-dollar legal verdicts from sex abuse cases pending against its priests, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday, church official said.
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Pope Benedict on Saturday named  Kazimierz Nycz, a bishop with a spotless record, as archbishop  of Warsaw to replace a prelate who resigned in disgrace after  admitting he spied for the communist police.
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LOS ANGELES -- A 25-year-old Mexican man who says he was raped by a priest filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court yesterday against a Mexican cardinal, alleging he hid evidence to protect a priest accused of molesting boys. The plaintiff, Joaquin Aguilar Mendez, alleges that Cardinal Norberto Rivera, now Mexico's top-ranking cardinal, helped cover up abuse by the ...
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Pope John Paul II has named the bishop who investigated the seminary child pornography scandal in Austria to replace the man who resigned over the case, the Vatican said Thursday.
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People who say they were sexually  abused by priests could receive more than $1.5 billion in  damages from The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles --  more than any other U.S. diocese has paid, an attorney for more  than 100 alleged victims said on Sunday.
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Pope Benedict on Saturday named Kazimierz Nycz, a bishop with a spotless record, as archbishop of Warsaw to replace a prelate who resigned in disgrace after admitting he spied for the communist police.
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The Roman Catholic diocese of Palm Beach, Fla., and national sex abuse victims' groups called today for former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) to give police the name of the clergyman who allegedly abused him as a teenager.
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A priest admits he is the clergyman behind a sex abuse case in which a five figure payout was made.