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Philadelphia Cardinal's Apology Not Enough, Advocates Say

As Philadelphia-area parishioners began to learn the names of the 21 Catholic priests suspended in connection with alleged child sexual abuse, advocates for victims criticized the archbishop's plea for forgiveness and handling of the scandal. Cardinal Justin Rigali asked a capacity crowd at Philadelphia's Cathedral...

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...

Belgian Raids on Tombs, Church Stir Vatican Outrage

(June 25) -- After two months of increasingly conciliatory gestures by the Vatican in response to the global Catholic sex abuse scandal, top clerics in Rome reacted angrily today to surprise police raids on the Catholic Church in Belgium. The Vatican said in a statement it was "outraged" by Thursday's raids, which...

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...

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...

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Five Priests Accused Of Sexual Abuse Removed From MInistry In Philadelphia

(RNS) Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput announced Friday (May 4) that five priests accused of sexually abusing children last year would be barred from ministry and could be defrocked, while three others were cleared by a church-led investigation and could return to pastoral work.

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Don Flickinger, Noe Valley Priest, Accused Of Sexually Abusing Minors

A lawsuit filed by a 23-year old San Jose man has accused Father Don Flickinger of four decades of sexual abuse against minors as well as a number of Bay Area Catholic churches of moving the priest from one diocese to another in a concerted effort to hide his behavior from the public.

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Victim Of Priest Sex Abuse In Illinois Gets $6.3 Million From Diocese

A nine-year legal fight by a man sexually abused by a priest in the 1970s is over, now that a southern Illinois diocese and its insurer have handed over $6.3 million to resolve a jury award in the man's favor.

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Chaput Will Upend Convention In The Most Conventional Of Cities

(RNS) The most obvious reason that Pope Benedict XVI sent Archbishop Charles Chaput from Denver to take over the prestigious Archdiocese of Philadelphia was the same one that has shaped almost every major development in American Catholicism over the past decade: the clergy sexual abuse scandal.

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Rev. Debra Haffner: The Catholic Sex Abuse Report: Too Little, Too Late?

I found myself alternatively fascinated and infuriated as I read the new 152 page report by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests.