Priest is cleared of sex charges
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A Roman Catholic priest is found not guilty of committing gross indecency with a seven-year-old girl.
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The expulsion of a priest from a church in south-west France has set off a fresh debate about celibacy.
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A Church of Ireland clergyman from Fermanagh is found guilty of possessing indecent images of children.
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A judge on Thursday cleared a 38-year-old man of all charges in connection with the 1998 Omagh bombing, which killed 29 people in what was Northern Ireland's worst atrocity in 30 years of violence.
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NEW YORK - The city is showing no mercy to a priest who got a $115 ticket for parking in an ambulance zone while ministering to an ailing hospital patient.  Two months after ticketing the Rev. Cletus Forson of St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Brooklyn, the city has thrown out his appeal.
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He was speaking at a conference about sexual health &amp;#151; a meeting convened in part to help reduce the alarming number of rapes in Kenya. But the priest wasn&#039;t crusading. He was trying to entertain.
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NEW FRANKEN, Wis. - A Catholic priest has removed his church's organist and choir director from her duties saying her sale of sex toys was not "consistent with Church teachings." Linette Servais, 50, played the organ and sung with the choir for 35 years.
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On Tuesday, Ambrose Kappos, former Navy diver, was cleared of the charges of trailing and harassing Sheryl Crow during the past year.
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Former Mexican pop superstar Gloria Trevi has been cleared of sex abuse charges after a court ruled there was not enough evidence against her.
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The Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle  said on Monday that three of its priests have been barred from  the ministry after an internal investigation found that  allegations they sexually abused children were credible.
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A priest who gave thousands of pounds to a friend who used it to groom a young girl is convicted of facilitating a child sex offence.
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BUTTERWORTH: A priest was yesterday charged with molesting a woman who had trusted him to rid her of bad luck.  S.
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The Catholic Church in Austria is investigating a  priest amid allegations he sexually abused children.
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Roman Catholic priest who drew attention two years ago when he took to his Brooklyn pulpit to deny sexual abuse accusations was indicted yesterday on charges of abusing an 11-year-old altar boy the same year.
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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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A man who spent 21 years behind bars for the rape of a police officer's wife was freed Friday after being cleared by DNA testing.
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A court convicts an ex-priest of raping a boy in the 1980s in a scandal which has shaken the Church in Boston.