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Vatican Offers 3 Reasons It’s Not Liable For Abuse
Posted on 31 Mar 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

VATICAN CITY – (AP) Dragged deeper than ever into the clerical sex abuse scandal, the Vatican is launching a legal defense that it hopes will shield the pope from a lawsuit in Kentucky seeking to have him answer attorneys' questions under oath... Read More

Tags: sexual abuse , Crimen Sollicitationis , Vatican , Cardinal William Levada , Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone , pope , Rev. Louis Miller , Litigation , lawsuit , Archbishop Pietro Sambi , Holy See , Pope Benedict XVI

Oregon Abuse Case Lawyers Want To Question Cardinals
Posted on 9 Sep 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

PORTLAND, Ore. - (AP) Lawyers for a man who wants to hold the Vatican accountable for the priest who molested him in the 1960s asked a federal judge Wednesday to allow them to question top cardinals. The lawyers filed papers outlining requests for depositions... Read More

Tags: sexual abuse , Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger , Cardinal Angelo Sodano , Vatican , Cardinal William Levada , Tarcisio Bertone , John V. Doe , pope , Rev. Andrew Ronan , Litigation , priests , lawsuit , Catholic church , cardinals , Pope Benedict XVI