A Portland man can sue the Vatican in a United States court over his alleged molestation as a teenager by a parish priest, a federal appellate panel ruled Tuesday.
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Friday’s ruling throwing out limits on punitive damages came in a case in which a jury awarded a Greene County man $5,000 in compensatory damages in his sexual abuse lawsuit against a priest. Jurors also added $150,000 in punitive damages.
A recently impaneled federal grand jury is investigating how the Los Angeles archdiocese managed accusations that dozens of priests molested hundreds of teenagers and younger children over many years.
For many service members, the return from an overseas assignment can be bittersweet. Reunion with wives, husbands, children and other family members is sweet, but some of the emotional baggage brought back is bitter.
A legal settlement with the Crosier Catholic religious order over clergy sex abuse cases could reverberate from Little Falls to Milaca to Forest Lake
A former Roman Catholic priest who took a boy on religious retreats to have sex with him was sentenced today to 25 years in prison.
This district’s Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against Cardinal Norberto Rivera of Mexico City and a Mexican diocese for allegedly conspiring to protect a priest accused of sexual misconduct due to a lack of jurisdiction.
David Bidney trusted the man he knew as “Father Jerry” at St. Odilia Catholic parish in Shoreview. He was 10 years old when the Rev. Gerald Funcheon started sexually abusing him in the early 1970s, he said Thursday, bribing him with ice cream from the Dairy Queen on Lexington Avenue and then molesting him
A St. Paul attorney who for years has defended victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy today is announcing settlements in nine cases for $1.7 million on behalf of his clients.
The U.S. attorney in Los Angeles has launched a federal grand jury investigation into Cardinal Roger M. Mahony in connection with his response to the molestation of children by priests in the Los Angeles Archdiocese, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the case.
The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has admitted that one of its former priests, Harry Monroe, was a child molester
A New Yorker serving in the U.S. Coast Guard filed a lawsuit Thursday claiming he was molested repeatedly by a counselor at a popular Catskills summer camp.
The Furor Over Weakland?s Bronze
by Bruce Murphy | Tuesday 1/12/2010
Is there any organization in town that is more clueless about public relations than the Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese?
In the midst of what should have been a celebration, the installation of new Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki, the archdiocese is instead engulfed in controversy over whether it should have involved former Archbishop Rembert Weakland in the ceremony and whether a bronze image celebrating his tenure is inappropriate.
The criticism has been led by Peter Isely, the implacable director of the Midwe
A Plover, Wis., woman has sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of La Crosse, claiming it allowed a priest to remain active for nearly four decades despite knowing he had a history of molesting children.
A new $1,375,000 settlement has been made in a child sexual abuse case involving a Catholic priest who worked in the Chicago archdiocese and now works as a pastor at Shrine of Christ the King in Winfield (Du Page County).