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Vatican Served With Court Documents In Wis. Abuse Case
Posted on 13 Apr 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

MILWAUKEE - (AP) The Vatican has been served with court papers stemming from decades-old allegations of sexual abuse against a now-deceased priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf, attorneys for the accuser and the Vatican said Tuesday. Jeff Anderson... Read More

Tags: sexual abuse , Cardinal Angelo Sodano , Vatican , Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone , Catholic , Anderson , Litigation , St. John's School for the Deaf , Wisconsin , Terry Kohut , Rev. Lawrence Murphy , Pope Benedict XVI

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

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