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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...

LA Cardinal, Ariz. Senator Spar Over Immigration

LOS ANGELES (April 22) -- A controversial Arizona law targeting illegal immigrants has sparked a war of words between an Arizona legislator and Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony, who on Sunday decried a scenario under the pending legislation of "reverting to German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques whereby people are...

Pope Sued in Wisconsin Clergy Sex Abuse Case

MILWAUKEE (April 22) -- A man who says he was molested by a priest while a student at a Catholic school for the deaf filed a federal lawsuit today against Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican and senior church officials, saying the Vatican knew the priest was a pedophile and could have stopped the sexual abuse. The plaintiff...

Cardinal Disinvited to Latin Mass at DC Basilica

(April 22) -- The nation's largest Catholic church has disinvited a former Vatican official from the first traditional Latin Mass in nearly 45 years because the cardinal once praised a bishop for failing to report a pedophile priest. Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos was to deliver the elaborate mass on Saturday at the Basilica...

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...