As DA in ’79, he decided not to prosecute, records indicate
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A Roman Catholic nun was sentenced Friday to a year in jail and 10 years’ probation for sexually abusing two teenage boys at an elementary school in the 1960s.
The cancer diagnosed in Indianapolis Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein is a relatively rare form that is especially unusual in people older than 60, a medical expert said Thursday, but is a kind that’s curable in a majority of cases.
An advocacy group for people abused by clergy wants St. Norbert Abbey to help turn over to authorities a priest accused of molesting a boy during a four-day visit to St. Norbert College in the 1980s
Man, Protestors Claim There May Be More Victims In Vegas
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
Two brothers molested by a priest filed a fraud lawsuit Wednesday, alleging the overseeing diocese knew the priest had a history of abusing children and allowed him access to the pair anyway.
A judge threw out a lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Superior, saying the diocese can’t be forced to release information about how the church deals with sex abuse by priests.
A judge dismissed the suit seeking names of priests suspected of sex abuse. It stemmed from two killings in 2002 at a funeral home.
When it comes to sexual abuse, the religious orders have flown under the radar.
A man who was an altar boy at a Southside parish 30 years ago finally heard the Archdiocese of Indianapolis publicly acknowledge Monday that his former priest was a molester.