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Church paid $187,000 in another case with same priest

Green Bay Diocese, Father John Patrick Feeney, documents from Personnel file and Police investigation.

Ramsey County District Judge Kathleen Gearin has ruled that a man who says he was molested in the 1980s by former Catholic priest Thomas Adamson can seek punitive damages in his lawsuit against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Diocese of Winona.

1/8/2008 Local man suing Green Bay Diocese Lisa Curtis Ozaukee News Graphic CEDARBURG - A Cedarburg man who is suing the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay for covering up an abusive priest's past misdeeds said he isn't challenging the church, but rather those in charge of it. "The church is the people. It's the leadership we're challenging," said Todd Merryfield, who is suing the diocese with his brother, Troy, after they were abused as children by one of its priests. "They could have stopped this at any point and none of us would be going through this." The Merryfields' suit claims the d

Civil suit alleges church failed to protect boys