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BOMBSHELL: Priest Continued To Work Despite Being Banned From LA Archdiocese

AP | Posted 04.15.2013 | Los Angeles
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LOS ANGELES -- In an April 14 story about confidential personnel files on Roman Catholic religious order priests, The Associated Press reported errone...

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The Catholic Church Needs To 'Man Up'

Kristen Houghton | Posted 04.14.2013 | Religion
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Kristen Houghton

It is time to for the church to really take responsibility for the pain it has caused, the innocence it has stolen and the lives it has ruined.

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LAPD Is Digging Through Church's Shameful Past

AP | TAMI ABDOLLAH and GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 04.07.2013 | Los Angeles
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LOS ANGELES — Police will review abusive priests' personnel files to see if the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles commi...

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Church Files Reveal Protection For Pedophile Priests

AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 03.24.2013 | Los Angeles
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LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors who have been stymied for years in their attempts to build a criminal conspiracy case against retired Los Angeles Arch...

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Top Secret Files On Abusive Priests Could Soon See Light Of Day

AP | GILLIAN FLACCUS | Posted 02.09.2013 | Los Angeles
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LOS ANGELES — A judge on Monday ordered the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles to turn over to the court the top-secret files it has kept...

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Cardinal Dolan Allegedly Approved Payoffs For Abusive Priests While Head Of Archdiocese Of Milwaukee

AP | Posted 07.31.2012 | Religion
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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Archdiocese of Milwaukee confirmed Wednesday that it had a policy to pay suspected pedophile priests to leave the ministry. T...

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Strauss-Kahn and the Pope

Christopher Strong | Posted 11.14.2011 | World
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Christopher Strong

What's the connection? The "common cord?" What on earth could possibly connect these two other than hair color?. Certainly not religion. Equally not ...

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LA Prosecutors Fight To Block Child Molester Ex-Priest's Release From Jail

AP | LINDA DEUTSCH | Posted 10.26.2011 | Los Angeles
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LOS ANGELES — A notorious, child-molesting former priest, who avoided prosecution on all but two of a dozen sexual abuse allegations, could face...

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The Man Who Brought Down the Catholic Church

Tom Matlack | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
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Tom Matlack

Princess was one of the first brave sexual abuse victims to speak out. Without him, it's possible that the church would have continued its cover-up for years.

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Pope Receives Unusual Support From Abuse Victims

Religion News Service | Francis X. Rocca | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
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By Francis X. Rocca Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI received words of support from a rare source on Sunday (April 18): vic...

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Pope, Breaking Silence, Says Church Must 'Do Penance'

Religion News Service | Francis X. Rocca | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
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VATICAN CITY (RNS) Breaking his silence as an international clergy sex abuse scandal has roiled the Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday (Ap...

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Vatican Backtracks On Linking Abuse Scandal To Gays

Religion News Service | Francis X. Rocca | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
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VATICAN CITY (RNS) A day after the Vatican's No. 2 official suggested a link between pedophilia and homosexuality, the pope's top spokesman issued a c...

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It's Not About Celibacy: Blaming the Wrong Thing for the Sexual Abuse Crisis

Rev. James Martin, S.J. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
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Rev. James Martin, S.J.

Celibacy does not cause pedophilia. But that hasn't stopped otherwise thoughtful pundits and commentators, and among them even some Catholics, from opining on celibacy as a cause of the crisis.

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