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Catholic order to pay $16.5 mln to more than 400 claiming sex abuse
ReutersNEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - An order of the Roman Catholic Church has agreed to pay $16.5 million to more than 400 adults who said they were sexually abused as children by religious leaders, the parties announced on Thursday in separate statements....Tags: Christianity, Religion and Belief, Bankruptcy, Francis I, Roman Catholicism
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Catholic order to pay $16.5 million to more than 400 claiming sex abuse
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - An order of the Roman Catholic Church has agreed to pay $16.5 million to more than 400 adults who said they were sexually abused as children by religious leaders, the parties announced on Thursday in separate statements. The...Tags: Christianity, Bankruptcy, Religion and Belief, Francis I, Roman Catholicism
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Christian Brothers settle suit with 400 sex abuse victims
The Roman Catholic religious order that runs Brother Rice High School in Chicago and St. Laurence High School in Burbank didn't want Brother Edward Chrysostom Courtney in Chicago any longer. So in the early 1970s, the Irish Christian Brothers shipped...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Christianity, Cook County Government, Justice System
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Chicago Jesuits hid sex crimes
Tribune reporterInternal church records released Tuesday show that Chicago Jesuits consciously concealed the crimes of convicted sex offender Donald McGuire for more than 40 years as the prominent Roman Catholic priest continued to sexually abuse dozens of children...Tags: Lawyers, Laws, Sexual Misconduct, Punishment, Christianity
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WikiLeaks film shifts focus after Julian Assange won't share info
When director Alex Gibney began work on his documentary "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," he thought he would be telling the story of a charismatic, silver-haired free speech advocate named Julian Assange, who had exposed dark corners of...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Sundance Film Festival, Religion and Belief, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (movie), WikiLeaks
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Pope warns Church against closing in on itself
Reuters* Francis warns of threat of a self-referential Church * Urges faithful to go out to the "very outskirts" of the world * Mass marks Pentecost Sunday, viewed as birthday of Church By Catherine Hornby VATICAN CITY, May 19 (Reuters) - Pope Francis warned...Tags: Christianity, Religion and Belief, Vatican City, Francis I, Roman Catholicism
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Man reaches deal with priest, diocese over alleged abuse
The Honolulu Star-AdvertiserA Florida man who says he repressed memories of his childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a Catholic priest while growing up on Oahu has reached a $362,500 settlement with the priest and the North Dakota diocese that had been in charge of him. Steven...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Christianity, Justice System, Marketing
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Disgraced Cardinal O'Brien to leave Scotland for penance-Vatican
ReutersVATICAN CITY, May 15 (Reuters) - Cardinal Keith Patrick O'Brien, who resigned as head of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland after acknowledging sexual misconduct, will leave Scotland for months of "prayer and penance", the Vatican said on Wednesday. A...Tags: Papal Conclave (2013), Christianity, Sex Crimes, Religion and Belief, Francis I
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Boston Herald Margery Eagan column
Boston HeraldGood for Boston College for refusing to disinvite Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny as this Sunday's graduation speaker after Cardinal Sean O'Malley basically told BC: It's him or me. Well, BC chose Kenny. O'Malley's staying home. Fantastic. On his...Tags: Christianity, Boston College, Religion and Belief, Vatican City, Roman Catholicism
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Cleric's case a puzzle, concern
The New Hampshire Union Leader, ManchesterThe Rev. Monsignor Edward J. Arsenault was the public face of the Catholic Diocese of Manchester during the height of the clergy sexual abuse crisis more than a decade ago. Arguably the most high-profile cleric in New Hampshire from 2002 through 2007,...Tags: Sexual Misconduct, Christianity, Sex Crimes, Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism
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Love to attend your wedding, but God said no
It's not surprising that the leading Roman Catholic churchman in Rhode Island is disappointed that the state has legalized same-sex marriage. But in reacting to what he called “this immoral and unnecessary proposition,” Bishop Thomas J....Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Christianity, Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism, Family
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Former priest at Schaumburg church sued for sexual abuse
A former parishioner at St. Matthew Catholic Church in Schaumburg sued an ex-Roman Catholic priest and the Archdiocese of Chicago in Cook County Circuit Court on Thursday, accusing the former church leader of sexual abuse. According to the complaint,...
Tags: Christianity, Cook County Government, Sex Crimes, Religion and Belief, Health and Medical Professionals
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