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All Is Not Forgiven
The investigation found that reforms promised by the Vatican after the priest sex abuse scandal were ignored. Only when confronted with the findings of the investigation did the Archdiocese of Los Angeles admit that its background check of priests did not go beyond reviewing a letter from a former superior.
Tags: sex abuse; priests; Vatican; Catholic Church
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Archdiocese Hires Criminal
The personnel director for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati knowingly hired a criminal to run a new program designed to protect children. His job was to conduct the fingerprint and background checks now required of all volunteers who coach or help out in Catholic schools. The investigation uncovered the personnel director was a close personal friend of the criminal for more than 20 years and that the troubled young man claimed the personnel director had sexually abused him as a child. He claimed he continued his sexual relationship with the personnel director in exchange for jobs, money and clothes. The criminal had access to the social security numbers of thousands of Catholic volunteers. It was shown how he continued to commit crimes while employed by the Archdiocese, and how the personnel director continued to cover for him, even bailing him out of jail.
Tags: archdiocese; Cincinnati; criminal; social security; sexual abuse; crime; volunteer; hiring; back ground checks
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Study Reveals Vast Scope of Priest Abuse
A study by the LA Times shows the number of Catholic priests from Los Angeles Archdiocese that have been accused of sexual abuse since 1950.
Tags: Priest; sexual abuse; child molestation; catholic; archdiocese; scandal
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Cincinnati Archdiocese Investigation
For the past three years the authors have been investigating the Archdiocese of Cincinnati for covering up sex abuse in the church and the practice of controlling victims to prevent public revelation. Victims are now pushing lawmakers for a law change that would allow civil suits to be tried in court, despite the passing of the statute of limitations.
Tags: Catholic church; sexual abuse; Archdiocese of Cincinnati; Archbishop of Cincinnati; statute of limitations; Senate Bill 17; Court Order; civil suits; sex-abuse
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Secret Files
The Courant detailed the extent and nature of an unusual practice whereby state judges selectively sealed cases, some so completely that their very existence was not publicly acknowledged. That disclosure, and the revelations that the practice often favored fellow judges, celebrities, and wealthy CEO's, stoked considerable public outrage. Six months later, judges abolished it.
Tags: state judges; dockets; Connecticut Practice Book; Connecticut Law Tribune; sealed cases; sealed files; lawsuit; divorce-court cases; Texaco; Nine West; Arthur Anderson; MasterCard; Primerica Corp.; General Electric; University of Connecticut; Level 1 sealing; Level 2 sealing; judicial branch; Superior Court Judges; U.S. Supreme Court; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford; Connecticut State Supreme Court; U.S. District Court in Hartford; sexual abuse; lawsuits public interest cases; secret court files; state-court proceedings
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I-Team Archdiocese Investigation
This story is triggered off by the Cincinnati Archbishop's unusual reaction to the national sex abuse that rocked the Catholic Church. WCPO's investigation reveals the Cincinnati/Dayton area Catholic Church's longtime cover-up of sexual abuse by priests, and holds accountable its leader for the past twenty years, Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk. Driven by an interview with the Archbishop, the first story in this 3-part series details the church's failure to protect children from pedophile priests. The second story reveals how Archdiocese leaders routinely ignore credible complaints about priests who commit crimes and endanger students. The third story highlights some of the measures many Catholics believe might be the solution.
Tags: Tape; transcripts; Bob Morford
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A Priest's 2 Faces: Protector, Predator
In this detailed report, The Times details the two-pronged personality of Rev. Paul R. Shanley who was arrested on charges of raping a 6-year-old boy in 1983. While he was seen as a benefactor by many harassed children, he switched roles to harass some himself.
Tags: Religion; Catholic; Church; Priest; Rev. Paul R.Shanley; Boston; Archdiocese
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Behind the Collar
WJLA-TV tells the nightmare stories of several men who have been molested by Paul Lavin, a powerful Washington Catholic priest who used to open with prayer many Senate sessions. After the report, the priest has been investigated by the archdiocese, removed from the ministry and defrocked.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; religion; molestation; crime; Catholic church
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Crisis in the Catholic Church
"The topic was the extraordinary number of Catholic priests who abused minors, and the decades-long effort by the bishops and cardinals to cover up the crimes. Priests who molested minors were most often moved from one parish to another when complaints were made, and sometimes shuffled off to other dioceses. Church leaders successfully warded off legislative efforts over the years to require clergy to report evidence of sexual abuse to the authorities. And when victims in large numbers hired lawyers in the 1990s to press claims, the Church made secret settlements to keep the lawyers from ever filing public lawsuits and prevent the victims from ever speaking out about their abuse. In the Boston archdiocese alone, files on 83 priests who molested children became public in 2002. Files on another 28 priests are being readied for public filing."
Tags: Religion
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Church in Crisis
This special sections reviews in detail all of the 185 lawsuits filed in Louisville between January 1 and September 29, 2002 by people alleging they were sexually abused as children by those affiliated with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville. Louisville has the second highest volume of clergy sexual abuse lawsuits in the country behind Boston.
Tags: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville; sexual abuse