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Police have asked state child welfare officials to investigate possible child abuse or neglect in the case of a 9-year-old who appears in sexually suggestive rap videos.
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Three female plaintiffs claim an evangelical church group covered up allegations of sexual abuse against children, failed to report accusations to the police and discouraged its members from cooperating with law enforcement, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
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The archdiocese of Philadelphia has announced that four Roman Catholic parishes in the suburban city of Phoenixville are being merged into two.
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A Missouri judge refused Thursday to dismiss misdemeanor charges against a Kansas City diocese and its bishop, who is the highest-ranking U.S. Roman Catholic official criminally charged with shielding an abusive priest.
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An assistant restaurant manager has become the 12th juror seated in the landmark case.
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Archbishop Chaput warned of cut backs and parish closures for the archdiocese, in a letter read aloud Sunday.
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A Philadelphia man alleges in a lawsuit that a priest in the archdiocese of Philadelphia sexually abused him 15 years ago.
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Five former altar boys who say a priest sexually abused them in the 1970s and 1980s have reached a settlement with the Catholic Church for more than $1 million, their lawyers announced Tuesday.
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A Philadelphia judge has ruled that the five defendants charged in a sex-abuse scandal at the city's Roman Catholic archdiocese will stand trial together.
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The Philadelphia DA has charged four priests and one teacher in connection with the sexual assault of two boys.
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Two dozen priests in the Philadelphia archdiocese have been suspended.
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The names of the 21 priests in the Philadelphia archdiocese named by a grand jury as child molestation suspects are now public.
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The Philadelphia archdiocese suspended 21 Roman Catholic priests Tuesday who were named as child molestation suspects.
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A man suing the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia says clergy covered up sexual assault allegations against a Roman Catholic priest who molested him in the 1990s.
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Three men are claiming they were molested by a priest in the Trenton diocese.
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A priest in the Philadelphia Archdiocese speaks out after being suspended pending further investigation in the sex abuse scandal in the Philadelphia Catholic church.
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The Diocese of Wilmington settled a lawsuit Wednesday with nearly 150 alleged victims of sexual abuse, awarding them more than $77 million.
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A man who says he was molested three decades ago by a Jesuit priest was arrested Friday on charges that he tracked down the retired cleric in his retirement home and severely beat him.
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Two eastern Pennsylvania priests have been removed from public ministry after church officials received credible sex abuse allegations against them.
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Pope Benedict XVI, beginning a controversial visit to Britain, acknowledged Thursday that the Catholic Church had failed to act decisively or quickly enough to deal with priests who rape and molest children. He said the church's top priority now was to help the victims heal.
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A Delaware parish has agreed to pay $2 million to a man who was sexually abused by a priest in the 1950s and 60s.
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The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citing concerns including "the good of the universal church," according to a 1985 letter bearing his signature.
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At a solemn Good Friday service, Pope Benedict XVI's personal preacher likened the tide of allegations that the pontiff has covered up sex abuse cases to the "more shameful aspects of anti-Semitism." But within hours, facing a storm of criticism at the comparison, the Vatican felt it necessary to distance the pope from the preacher's remarks.
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Pope Benedict and the Vatican are being criticized for not rooting out priests who molested children.
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Pope Benedict XVI opened Holy Week on Sunday amid one of the most serious crises facing the church in decades.
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Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation Wednesday of Bishop John Magee.
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