Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part of a lawsuit.
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A bankruptcy filing by the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington was the best way to ensure reconciliation and compensation for all victims of clergy sexual abuse in the diocese, the bishop said Monday.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport has lost every legal battle so far to keep secret the sex abuse cases involving priests, but Bishop William Lori said Monday that he has no regrets about taking this case all the way to the nation’s highest court
Vatican UN Observer Archbishop Silvano Tomasi has lashed out at criticism over the Church’s handling of the pedophilia crisis saying the Catholic Church is “busy cleaning its own house” and that the problems with clerical sex abuse in other churches are as big, if not bigger.
New lawsuit says Catholic cleric molested 2 pre-school boys in 2005
He was already on suspension for sexually assaulting a different child in DC
Parents and co-workers warned church officials about predator at least 20 years earlier.
As DA in ’79, he decided not to prosecute, records indicate
When it comes to sexual abuse, the religious orders have flown under the radar.
It also would end statutes of limitation
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.