The boys called them the party priests.
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Allegations that the Rev. Aaron Cote sexually abused two young Massachusetts boys, though reported to police more than a year ago, were never mentioned in a local lawsuit against the former Montgomery County priest’s religious order that was settled this summer.
A judge dismissed a lawsuit Friday that accused Mexico City Cardinal Norberto Rivera of conspiring with Roman Catholic officials in the United States to shelter an a suspected pedophile priest.
The convicted sexual abuser Rev. Donald McGuire plans to fight the Jesuits’ decision to dismiss him from the order.
A former Lafayette Catholic priest is the target of a sexual abuse civil suit. Though he no longer wears the Roman collar, he still works with youth and adults in Indiana.
CATHOLIC CHURCH | Letter to victim’s parents attacks proposed state law
Therapist Charles Cichanowicz of West Lafayette will keep his job at the Alpine Counseling Center in Lafayette although he is being sued in a civil court for alleged child molestation
A 37-year-old Navajo from Shiprock this week did something no other Navajo has ever done – take a Catholic priest to tribal court on allegations of sexual abuse.
Barbara A. Blaine, president of the Chicago-based group, said, “Our concern is that (Cote) comes to this community and is walking the street, and nobody is monitoring him.”
Jesuit given home confinement over prosecutors’ please
A St. John’s Abbey priest whose role on a review board brought criticism last month hasn’t served on the board since early 2007, according to a letter issued this week by the leader of St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville.
A retired Jesuit priest convicted of molesting two boys was taken into custody Friday on a charge that he molested a boy he took on a trip to Switzerland and Austria seven years ago, prosecutors announced.
A prominent Jesuit priest accused of sexually victimizing teenage boys who were his valets as he traveled the world leading Roman Catholic spiritual retreats was taken into federal custody yesterday in Chicago.
10/27/2007
Lawyer to Abbey: Follow settlement
By David Unze, dunze@stcloudtimes.com
ST. PAUL – The lawyer who represented numerous alleged victims of clergy sex abuse in what was hailed as a landmark settlement agreement with St. John’s Abbey on Friday accused Abbot John Klassen of failing to live up to terms of that agreement.
St. Paul attorney Jeff Anderson bases his accusation on questions about the past of a priest recently appointed to the External Review Board, which was created as a result of the settlement.
The Abbey issued a brief statement Friday afternoon that said it would no
Priest convicted of child molestation accused of abusing 2 more boys