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Vatican Says Leaked Sex Abuse Policy Letter Is No Smoking Gun

The Vatican said today that a newly leaked 1997 letter written to Irish bishops warning them about reporting sex abuse to police was misinterpreted as evidence of the church trying to enforce cover-ups. The church denied the letter was a so-called "smoking gun," as described by some clerical sex abuse activists. But...

Supreme Court Declines Vatican Sex-Abuse Appeal

(June 28) -- The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to review a lawsuit that challenges the Vatican's immunity from prosecution in clerical sex abuse cases. Minnesota lawyer Jeffrey Anderson, who filed the case in 2002, called the high court's decision to allow the lawsuit to go forward "an enormous breakthrough for the...

Indian Priest in Fla. Assault Incident Turns Up in Italy

(April 15) -- A priest who pleaded no contest in the assault of a teenage girl in Florida and was sent back to his native India turns out to be still on the job, this time at a diocese in Tuscany, Italy. The case involving the Rev. Vijay Vhaskr Godugunuru -- which the Vatican was aware of -- is one of many now coming...

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05/23/12 2 who won case vs. Green Bay diocese drop punitive... Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Milwaukee WI Two brothers who won a landmark case this week against the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, for its role in their sexual abuse by a priest in the 1970s, withdrew their claim for punitive damages on Wednesday.
05/17/12 How We Got To Be $15.7 Trillion in Debt Source: Hyscience As we've now gone beyond the point at which Barack Obama has borrowed more money in 3 years than Bush did in 8, Jeffrey Anderson points to this useful chart at NPR ( based on figures provided by the White House Office of Management and Budget ), and spells out exactly how America got to the point of now being $15.7 trillion in debt ... and still going ever-deeper in the hole ( it's risen $5.9 trillion over the past four years and $15.4 trillion over the past fifty years ): in 1962 -- the middle year of John F. Kennedy's presidency -- we spent 52 percent of our federal budget on national defense and 1 percent on federal health programs.