Monsignor in landmark church abuse case goes back on trial

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Nearly two decades after the Roman Catholic priest-abuse scandal exploded in the U.S. in 2002, only one church official has ever gone to prison over it: Monsignor William Lynn, the longtime secretary for clergy in the Philadelphia archdiocese. After an appeals court found his sweeping 2012 trial flawed and his conviction was... Read More

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Catholic Church, William Lynn

March 2, 2020

Buffalo Roman Catholic Diocese seeks bankruptcy protection

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The embattled Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, taking another major step in its effort to recover from a clergy misconduct scandal that’s been the basis for hundreds of lawsuits, Vatican intervention and the resignation of its bishop. With its filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the western... Read More

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February 28, 2020

Buffalo Roman Catholic Diocese seeks bankruptcy protection

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The embattled Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo filed for bankruptcy protection Friday, taking another major step in its effort to recover from a clergy misconduct scandal that‘s been the basis for hundreds of lawsuits, Vatican intervention and the resignation of its bishop. With its filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the western... Read More

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Catholic Church

February 25, 2020

S. Dakota kills bill from survivors of Catholic school abuse

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Louise Aamot Charbonneau couldn’t make her annual trip to the South Dakota Legislature this year to confront lawmakers with her story of surviving childhood rape and abuse at the hands of priests and nuns at a boarding school for Native Americans during the 1950s and 1960s. The 69-year-old died suddenly three... Read More

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February 21, 2020

NFL Saints backed by church in effort to keep emails secret

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — An attorney for New Orleans’ Roman Catholic archdiocese Thursday strongly defended the New Orleans Saints’ behind-the-scenes help in dealing with the clergy sex abuse crisis, saying the legal effort to release hundreds of confidential emails between them is aimed at trying to shame those “who had the audacity” to back the... Read More

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February 20, 2020

Another Catholic diocese seeks bankruptcy after abuse deals

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, six months after disclosing it had paid millions of dollars to people sexually abused as children by its clerics. The diocese joins at least 20 others across the United States in seeking protection from creditors through the federal bankruptcy system,... Read More

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Catholic Church, Sexual Abuse

February 20, 2020

NFL’s Saints head to court in Catholic Church email dispute

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Saints headed to court Thursday in a bid to block the release of hundreds of confidential emails detailing the behind-the-scenes public relations work the team did for the area’s Roman Catholic archdiocese amid its sexual abuse crisis. The request comes amid claims that the NFL team joined the... Read More

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February 18, 2020

Disgraced religious order tried to get abuse victim to lie

MILAN (AP) — The cardinal’s response was not what Yolanda Martínez had expected — or could abide. Her son had been sexually abused by a priest of the Legion of Christ, a disgraced religious order. And now she was calling Cardinal Valasio De Paolis — the Vatican official appointed by the pope to lead the... Read More

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February 13, 2020

Arizona church sued over decades-old abuse allegations

PHOENIX (AP) — Two children were sexually abused by Catholic priests about 40 years ago in an Arizona parish and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix covered up the problem, according to newly filed lawsuits. Both lawsuits were brought Monday under a 2019 state law that extends the right of people who say they were... Read More

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Catholic Church, Joseph Henn

February 11, 2020

Saints owner denies team had role in clergy sex abuse list

The owner of the New Orleans Saints said Monday that the NFL team played no role in determining which priests would be named in the list of “credibly accused” clergy published by the area’s Roman Catholic Church. Gayle Benson, a devout Catholic who has donated millions of dollars to church causes, also said in a... Read More

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Catholic Church, NFL, Saints

February 3, 2020

Key witness could be in doubt in landmark church retrial

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An aging monsignor who was the first U.S. church official ever tried and sent to prison over his handling of priest-abuse complaints could soon be retried in the 2011 case with one thing missing — the victim. The only accuser whose complaint fell within the statute of limitations is a young man... Read More

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Catholic Church, William Lynn

January 31, 2020

NFL’s Saints accused of helping shape clergy sex abuse list

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Saints say they only did “minimal” public relations work on the area’s Roman Catholic sexual abuse crisis, but attorneys suing the church allege hundreds of confidential Saints emails show the team’s involvement went much further, helping to shape a list of credibly accused clergy that appears to be... Read More

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Catholic Church, NFL, Saints

January 27, 2020

NFL’s Saints fight to shield emails in Catholic abuse crisis

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area’s Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis. Attorneys for about two dozen men... Read More

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December 30, 2019

Hundreds of accused clergy left off church’s sex abuse lists

Richard J. Poster served time for possessing child pornography, violated his probation by having contact with children, admitted masturbating in the bushes near a church school and in 2005 was put on a sex offender registry. And yet the former Catholic priest was only just this month added to a list of clergy members credibly... Read More

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Monsignor in landmark church abuse case goes back on trial

Buffalo Roman Catholic Diocese seeks bankruptcy protection

Buffalo Roman Catholic Diocese seeks bankruptcy protection

S. Dakota kills bill from survivors of Catholic school abuse

NFL Saints backed by church in effort to keep emails secret

Another Catholic diocese seeks bankruptcy after abuse deals

NFL’s Saints head to court in Catholic Church email dispute

Disgraced religious order tried to get abuse victim to lie

Arizona church sued over decades-old abuse allegations

Saints owner denies team had role in clergy sex abuse list

Key witness could be in doubt in landmark church retrial

NFL’s Saints accused of helping shape clergy sex abuse list

NFL’s Saints fight to shield emails in Catholic abuse crisis

Hundreds of accused clergy left off church’s sex abuse lists

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