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U.S. Judge Asks Vatican To Serve Court Paper To Pope
Posted on 2 Oct 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

MILWAUKEE - (AP) A federal U.S. judge is asking the Vatican to cooperate in serving the Pope and two other top officials with court papers that stem from decades-old allegations of sexual abuse by a priest in Wisconsin. The request is an incremental and... Read More

Tags: Catholics , Cardinal Angelo Sodano , Vatican , Joseph Ratzinger , sex abuse , Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone , Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests , District Judge Rudolph Randa , SNAP , Milwaukee priest , pope , Litigation , sexual abuse by a priest , priests , lawsuit , Rev. Lawrence Murphy , Pope Benedict XVI

Lawsuit Tries Tough Sell: Vatican As Business
Posted on 23 Apr 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

MILWAUKEE – (AP) A lawsuit from the U.S. aims to place blame for priest sexual abuse at the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church by claiming the Vatican controls leadership, fundraising and doctrine down to the lowest levels. The lawsuit... Read More

Tags: Cardinal Angelo Sodano , Jeff Anderson , Vatican , priest sexual abuse , sex abuse , pope , Litigation , St. John's School for the Deaf , lawsuit , Catholic church , Rev. Lawrence Murphy

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

Attorney Suing Vatican, Pope Over Murphy Case
Posted on 22 Apr 2010 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

ST. PAUL, Minn. – (AP) An attorney says he is filing a federal lawsuit that accuses Pope Benedict XVI and senior Vatican officials of failing to defrock a Wisconsin priest despite allegations he molested at least 200 deaf children from 1950 to 1975... Read More

Tags: clergy abuse , Vatican , sex abuse , pope , Litigation , lawsuit , Catholic church , Rev. Lawrence Murphy , Pope Benedict XVI