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ST. LOUIS – The Archdiocese of St. Louis has asked a judge to dismiss several counts in a lawsuit alleging decades of clergy sexual abuse, arguing the claims do no meet Missouri’s legal standards to proceed.

The lawsuit, filed in July 2024 on behalf of 25 individuals, accuses the Archdiocese of enabling, covering up and concealing the sexual abuse of children by cle...


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“I did what I had to do to keep a child predator away from children,” said the attorney, Richard Trahant.

NEW ORLEANS — A New Orleans attorney remained defiant Saturday as another federal court upheld $400,000 in sanctions against him for warning a local high school that a priest with a secret history of abuse allegations was working there.

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Mandatory reporting laws, how they’ve changed, and what falls under clergy-penitence

In a troubling trend, police in Minnesota


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[See PDF of complete letter here.]

The Archdiocese of New Orleans has released a public apology to all abuse claimants.

The letter will be printed on Sunday, Jan...


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(*The United Nations Committee Against Torture reviewed the Vatican and issued a report in 2014 stating clerical sexual abuse is a form of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.)

“We have to do something. We’re losing people,” Vatican officials will say. This is the assessment of Timothy D. Law, a Catholic advocate for survivors and accountabilit...


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