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March 25, 2010 Contact: John Wodele

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Records Obtained by St. Paul Law Firm Implicate Pope

Press Conference Thursday, March 25, 2010 2 P.M. (CDT)

Who: Two prominent clergy sex abuse experts and advocates and a former Cannon Lawyer who served at the Vatican Embassy when the clergy abuse scandal first broke in the United States.

Attorney Jeff Anderson

Attorney Mike Finnegan

Tom Doyle

What: Press conference

When: Today, March 25, 2010

2 P.M.

Where: Anderson Law Offices

Suite 100

366 Jackson Street

St. Paul

Why: Attorneys will discuss long-hidden Catholic Church records obtained by a Minnesota law firm in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin case and then filed in the United States District Court in the case of John V. Doe vs. Holy See (State of the Vatican City)and highlighted in a page one story in today?s New York Times. The Documents seriously undermine the Pope?s credibility by revealing that the Pope and top aide kept 150 sex allegations vs. predator secret in 1998, and rebuffed 3 bishops who wanted the pedophile priests ousted.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/world/europe/25vatican.html

Jeff Anderson & Associates, P.A.

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St. Paul, MN 55101

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