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By Lisa Holewa - AOL NewsMILWAUKEE (April 22) -- A man who says he was molested by a priest while a student at a Catholic school for the deaf filed a federal lawsuit today against Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican and senior church officials, saying the Vatican knew the priest was a pedophile and could have stopped the sexual abuse. The plaintiff was identified only as John Doe 16, an Illinois man who said he was sexually abused by the Rev. Lawrence Murphy at St. John's School for the Deaf in a suburb of Milwaukee. The lawsuit asks that the Vatican be forced to release secret files with the names of clergy sex abusers ...
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By not in system - AOL News(April 20) -- My entry for the topic "pedophilia" in the 2007 Encyclopedia of Catholicism states: "Nothing has damaged the Catholic Church at the turn of the millennium more than the pedophile scandal. Many observers remain perplexed by the Vatican's continuing obtuseness toward the seriousness of the scandal." Unabated, the damage continues and the perplexity remains. And instead of addressing the problem, its leaders in the Vatican's inner sanctum offer lame explanations and excuses. _____________________ OPPOSING VIEWThere is no organization in the world that has admitted its mistakes, ...
About That Vast Anti-Catholic Conspiracy . . .
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyOh Holy Father, I am going to tell you exactly what I told Hillary Clinton -- not that she wanted to hear it any more than you do. Because you were busy receiving mail from a monster named Father Lawrence Murphy in January 1998, you may or may not recall our then-first lady telling the "Today" show's Matt Lauer that her husband had not been carrying on with a White House intern. Nope, that was just another story being peddled by his enemies, as part of their unrelenting efforts to destroy him by any means necessary. "I do believe that this is a battle," she said. "I mean, look at the very ...
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