Their portfolio is expanding dramatically: five dioceses in Pennsylvania and all five dioceses in New Jersey have signed on, and multiple dioceses in Colorado and California are expected to do so later this year.
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US Catholic dioceses The allegations against various US Catholic dioceses are based on accusations that the organizations covered up sexual abuse and protected pedophile priests.
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Fourteen state attorneys general soon announced that they would investigate their states' dioceses, while the Department of Justice subpoenaed Pennsylvania dioceses for their records of abuse.
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Feinberg and Biros subsequently established compensation programs in the Dioceses of Brooklyn (which includes Queens) and Rockville Centre (Long Island), and upstate, in the Dioceses of Syracuse and Ogdensburg.
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Pennsylvania's two other dioceses, Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown, have been the subjects of earlier grand jury reports, which found similarly damaging information about clergy and bishops in those dioceses.
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The Illinois attorney general contended that Catholic dioceses in the state often seemed to find ways to avoid substantiating claims of sexual abuse, saying that the dioceses were incapable of investigating themselves.
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It's a prospect Catholic dioceses have lobbied against for years.
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Together, those dioceses minister to more than 1.7 million Catholics.
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So how much money do these parishes and dioceses have?
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Many of his favored candidates are still leading American dioceses.
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All 15 dioceses in Texas have agreed to release lists.
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About 29 dioceses around the country have published partial lists.
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The scandal spread to dioceses around the country and abroad.
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It further orders dioceses to "demonstrate a sincere commitment" to the "spiritual and emotional well-being" of victims and forbids dioceses from entering settlements that require confidentiality from victims unless it's at a victim's request.
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The other side: The dioceses in Chicago, Springfield and Joliet, Ill.
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In all, six dioceses in the state are running similar programs.
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The shortfall was covered by the country's dioceses, financially straining some.
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Representatives from the dioceses have not yet commented on the investigation.
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The dioceses have refused to divulge the years of the settlements.
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Three-fourths of the allegations against clergy were either not investigated, or were investigated but not substantiated by the dioceses, the report found, based on files that the dioceses turned over to the attorney general's office.
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That investigation, which expanded to include cases across the state, turned into two grand jury investigations: one, covering Altoona–Johnstown and Philadelphia dioceses back in 2016, and the current one, which covers the remainder of the dioceses.
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The New York attorney general has issued civil subpoenas for all eight Catholic dioceses in the state as part of a civil investigation into how the dioceses potentially covered up allegations of the sexual abuse of minors.
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The other two dioceses were the subject of separate grand jury reports.
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The bishops conference then sent it to the dioceses on Oct. 23.
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The dioceses and other parts of the church function as non-profits.
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The dioceses, for their part, have pledged transparency in working with investigators.
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State Attorney General Josh Shapiro said at a news conference that this release is the culmination of an 13-month investigation into Pennsylvania's eight dioceses, and overlaps into two other dioceses after abuse and cover-ups were revealed.
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State Attorney General Josh Shapiro said at a news conference that this release is the culmination of an 18-month investigation into Pennsylvania's eight dioceses, and overlaps into two other dioceses after abuse and cover-ups were revealed.
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In many cases, the dioceses said they had not conducted investigations because the priest or clergy member was dead or had already resigned by the time the allegation was reported to the dioceses, according to the attorney general's office.
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The Chelmsford and Norwich dioceses already have support programs that underpin this incentive.
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It accused church authorities in several dioceses of lying in responses posted online.
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The Pennsylvania grand jury report has put dioceses across the country on alert.
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What I became interested in was finding out how many dioceses did so.
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It will cover the dioceses of Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton.
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The report covers the dioceses of Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton.
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Rochester is the first of the eight New York dioceses to do so.
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The Illinois dioceses cooperated with Madigan's investigation and turned over thousands of documents.
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That could open up the Catholic dioceses in New Jersey to massive liability.
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The overall investigation involves the dioceses of Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton.
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Pennsylvania has eight Catholic dioceses, encompassing about 1.7 million Catholics, the Associated Press reported.
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The court said it identified more than 300 "predator priests" in the six dioceses.
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Francis has so far accepted seven, and appointed "apostolic administrators" to run their dioceses.
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Individual dioceses throughout Boston paid off victims and sealed records, never making cases public.
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Throughout the 23s, however, various dioceses and archdioceses continued to settle privately with victims.
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One of the Pennsylvania dioceses he represents, Harrisburg, has publicly named all accused priests.
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The move shifts one of its most traditionalist dioceses toward a more pastoral approach.
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The report investigates clergy sexual abuse dating back to 1947 in six Pennsylvania dioceses.
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Stateside, two bishops of small American dioceses, Bishop David A. Konderla of Tulsa, Okla.
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Once the attorney general's office began investigating, the report said, the Illinois dioceses disclosed the names of 45 more clergy who were deemed by the church to be credibly accused of abusing minors — most of them cases the dioceses knew about for years.
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In the report's wake, officials in more than a dozen states announced that they would investigate their local Catholic dioceses, and the Justice Department reportedly subpoenaed records from Pennsylvania dioceses in a federal probe thought to be the first of its kind.
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A two-year investigation targeted the dioceses of Erie, Greensburg, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Allentown and Scranton.
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The state's three dioceses — Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo — all gave files to the investigation.
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They can say Mass but not move around their dioceses as freely as they wanted.
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China says there are six million Catholics in the country, across 98 officially approved dioceses.
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The firm has now administered the IRCPs in New York City and three upstate dioceses.
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Tuesday's grand jury report, which involves six other Pennsylvania dioceses, has also devastated me personally.
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Some churches and dioceses are still battling the Episcopal Church in court over church property.
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It is based on witness testimony and a review of internal documents from the dioceses.
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The report pushed other states around the country to begin investigations into their Catholic dioceses.
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It detailed abuse in six dioceses over 70 years, listing more than 300 abusive priests.
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For bishops, this must mean real partnership with laypeople in the governance of their dioceses.
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"In the Office's review of clergy files, a pattern emerged where the dioceses frequently failed to 'substantiate' an allegation when it came from only one survivor, even when the dioceses had reason to believe that survivor and reason to investigate further," the report said.
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The dioceses frequently did not investigate if a clergy member had died, left the country, or resigned from ministry; dioceses also often found claims to be unsubstantiated if only one survivor had reported abuse, even if that diocese had reason to believe the survivor's story.
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The Catholic Church said it hosts thousands of these migrants in hotels within dioceses or congregations.
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He asked the bishops of the four other dioceses to agree to cooperate with the probe.
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Dioceses are groupings of parishes and one of the main organizational structures of the Catholic church.
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The Ballarat Diocese, one of the largest Catholic dioceses in Australia, is a major power center.
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Those lawsuits will probably force New York dioceses to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars.
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U.S.: About 70 dioceses and religious orders have released lists of accused priests, according to BishopAccountability.org.
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The allegations date as far back as the 1940s for some dioceses and 1950s for others.
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Soon there will be Feinberg-branded I.R.C.P.s in the dioceses of two-fifths of American Catholics.
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Next is the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and the dioceses of Dallas, El Paso and Amarillo.
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Other dioceses are encouraging older Catholics to stay home or to forgo the sacrament of Communion.
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The dioceses often discredited survivors' claims by "focusing on the survivors' personal lives," the report said.
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However, it's apparent that not all dioceses have a history of complying fully with investigative bodies.
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Representatives of the six Pennsylvania dioceses included in the report could not be reached for comment.
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Civil subpoenas have gone out to all eight Catholic dioceses in the state, a source says.
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The archdiocese and the other seven dioceses were "ready and eager" to cooperate, said a spokesman.
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Scharfenberger will tend to both dioceses simultaneously until Malone's successor is appointed, the Albany diocese said.
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At the press conference, Nessel said the dioceses should stop "self-policing," according to Detroit News.
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"The bishops, they are basically executive, legislative and judicial power in their dioceses," Mr. McKiernan said.
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The grand jury report released last week chronicles abuse in six of the Pennsylvania's eight dioceses.
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The Department of Justice has also started subpoenaing records related to sex abuse from dioceses within Pennsylvania.
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The two-year investigation covered six of Pennsylvania&aposs eight dioceses, churches with some 1.7 million members.
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In the United States, the 196 dioceses (each overseen by a bishop) are grouped into 93 provinces.
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Dozens of U.S. dioceses have released names of priests accused of abuse, prompting states to open investigations.
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The grand jury report released Tuesday says that number comes from records in six Roman Catholic dioceses.
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It was largely based on documents from the archives kept by the state's six dioceses, he said.
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San Antonio reported the highest number of allegations among Texas dioceses, accusing 56 clergy members of abuse.
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In the aftermath, 36 dioceses have publicized self-reported lists of clergy "credibly accused" of abusing minors.
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The report spans all but one of the state's dioceses and documents abuse that goes back decades.
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The pope has already lifted their excommunication, paving the way for them to be formally granted dioceses.
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Nebraska: Attorney General Doug Peterson has asked (but not subpoenaed) the state's three dioceses for their records.
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A spokeswoman for the state's Catholic dioceses declined to comment Wednesday on SB261 and Rozzi's planned amendment.
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According to a source close to the investigation, all eight Catholic dioceses in the state were subpoenaed.
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New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood has also launched an investigation into her state's eight dioceses.
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This latest report covers six of Pennsylvania's eight dioceses, including Harrisburg, Greensburg, Pittsburgh, Erie, Allentown, and Scranton.
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The report set off a global wave of investigations that found similar patterns at dioceses around the world.
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The report concerns six of the state&aposs Roman Catholic dioceses — Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton.
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The scathing report details a "systematic" cover-up by church officials in six of the state's eight dioceses.
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It was founded in New York state in mid-2018 by its eight dioceses to support healthcare projects.
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Dioceses understand and rely upon the fact that the civil justice system will protect them and their secrets.
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As archbishop of Mosul's Syriac Orthodox church, he has been chased out of one of Christianity's oldest dioceses.
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They also are concerned about the cost of any papal visit because local dioceses would bear the expenses.
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Such plans have been considered by the two dioceses over the years, but no agreement was ever reached.
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Last month, the attorney general in Michigan executed search warrants on all seven Catholic dioceses in that state.
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Some dioceses have publicly welcomed the investigation as an opportunity to reckon with the scope of historic abuse.
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Until the Pennsylvania report, investigations by grand juries and attorneys general only looked at single dioceses or counties.
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"I think that my dioceses has been suffering a lot for a long time," Barbarin told KTO television.
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All eight of Pennsylvania's dioceses have received subpoenas and have told CNN they will cooperate with the probe.
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Since the Pennsylvania grand jury report, a number of Catholic dioceses have said they have launched internal investigations.
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Just this week, more than 300 Catholic clergy from dioceses in New Jersey were publicly accused of abuse.
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Even states that aren't officially investigating Catholic dioceses have seen a surge of interest in exposing sex abuse.
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Is this something new that we're seeing—the multiple intensive investigations and the apparent cooperation of the dioceses?
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The four U.S. dioceses where he served - New York, Metuchen, Newark, and Washington, D.C. - have launched independent investigations.
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The dioceses covering Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island announced the closings on Friday, the day after similar announcements by dioceses that cover the rest of the city, several suburban New York counties, western Connecticut and northern New Jersey All Catholic high schools on Long Island will also be closed next week.
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Despite the fact that the report covers just six of Pennsylvania's eight dioceses — just a fraction of the dioceses in America overall — it suggests a widespread and large-scale operation on the part of church hierarchy nationwide to cover up the behavior of offending priests and help them escape punishment.
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The funds will be split among 27 projects in 16 Mexican dioceses and religious congregations, according to the release.
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AUSTRALIA ARCHBISHOP GETS HOUSE DETENTION FOR ABUSE COVER-UP Those dioceses included Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton.
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And because dioceses operate relatively autonomously, a massive amount of legwork was needed to centralize and process that information.
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Previous investigations found widespread sexual abuse by priests in the state&aposs two other dioceses, Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown.
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Previous investigations found widespread sexual abuse by priests in the state&aposs two other dioceses: Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown.
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Centene is acquiring Fidelis Care, a health insurance company sponsored by Catholic dioceses in New York, for $3.75 billion.
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Illinois' dioceses have released lists publicly identifying 185 clergy members who had been credibly accused of child sex abuse.
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Missouri's attorney general, Josh Hawley, had said that his office could not force dioceses to cooperate with criminal investigations.
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Meanwhile, state attorneys general in New York, New Jersey, and other states launched their own probes into local dioceses.
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Outside of the Jesuit disclosures, at least 21980 Catholic dioceses in the United States have published accused priests' names.
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Certainly, in some states, such as Connecticut and Oklahoma, individual dioceses have already announced internal reviews of abuse allegations.
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A similar law, passed in California in 2002, resulted in Catholic dioceses there paying $1.2 billion in legal settlements.
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"Wuerl responded by dispatching letters notifying the relevant California and Nevada Dioceses of the 1994 complaint," the report states.
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"Little to no follow up from the dioceses was commonplace, leaving survivors without answers or resolutions," the report said.
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Catholic dioceses now have until June 1, 2020, to institute a "public and accessible" method for reporting abuse allegations.
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The Illinois dioceses decided that just 26 percent of those allegations were "credible" or "substantiated," according to the report.
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More than 120 US dioceses have released names of accused clergy The disclosure follows the release of lists by more than 120 dioceses around the country as the church has sought to increase transparency and rebuild trust among outraged Catholics, according to Terry McKiernan, president and co-director of the watchdog website BishopAccountability.org.
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The settlement comes less than two weeks after the New York attorney general issued civil subpoenas for all eight Catholic dioceses in the state as part of a civil investigation into how the dioceses and other parts of the church reviewed and potentially covered up allegations of the sexual abuse of minors.
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With the latest resignations, the pope has removed the leadership of about 20 percent of the Latin American country's dioceses.
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In both cases, Francis appointed other bishops as commissioners, known as Apostolic Administrators, to run the dioceses until further notice.
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The grand jury scrutinized abuse allegations in dioceses that minister to more than half the state&aposs 3.2 million Catholics.
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The investigation pertains to the Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton dioceses, which together consist of 1.7 million people.
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Previous investigations have found widespread sexual abuse by priests in the state&aposs two other dioceses, Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown.
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London is one of several dioceses within the Church of England that are growing, if only a little (see chart).
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It did not specify which of Illinois' six dioceses were responsible for the unreported accusations or when they were made.
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Instead, dioceses and parishes paid billions of dollars in settlements to accusers over several decades, securing secrecy over these cases.
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Deeply associated with the Catholic Church structure there, he ordained priests, divided the country into dioceses, and founded several monasteries.
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By his count, at least 35 dioceses have released lists or updates of previous lists since the beginning of August.
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Dozens of bishops have decided to release lists of the priests in their dioceses who were credibly accused of abuse.
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For the most part, attorneys general are trying to gather historical records from parishes and dioceses to conduct these investigations.
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It was largely based on documents from secret archives kept by the dioceses, including handwritten confessions by priests, he said.
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Previous grand juries examined the dioceses of Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown; the new report covers the rest of the state.
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Several district attorney's offices have investigated abuses within single dioceses, but those investigations took place more than a decade ago.
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"I certainly wouldn't be surprised to see other dioceses in New York file," said Terence McKiernan, the president of BishopAccountability.
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More than 20 other dioceses across the country have filed for bankruptcy since 2004, when the Archdiocese of Portland, Ore.
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He added that he decided to take a step back to allow the dioceses to heal and turn the page.
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The report investigates clergy sexual abuse dating to 1947 in the dioceses of Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton.
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The Catholic Church's Pennsylvania dioceses have paid almost $84 million to 564 sexual abuse victims, according to an AP review.
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The lists released by Newark and Metuchen also noted the allegations against Mr. McCarrick, who had once led both dioceses.
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In September, the New York attorney general issued civil subpoenas for all eight Catholic dioceses in the state as part of a civil investigation into how the dioceses and other parts of the church reviewed and potentially covered up allegations of the sexual abuse of minors, according to a source close to the investigation.
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Scholars have noted that in some countries and dioceses, women were ordained as deacons and considered clergy until the 12th century.
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It holds 5.8 billion euros ($6.6 billion) in assets for clients around the world - primarily congregations, dioceses and other Catholic institutions.
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The probe initially covers only the Archdiocese of St. Louis, one of five Roman Catholic dioceses in the state, Hawley said.
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The New York Times reported Friday that 286 priests were deemed credibly accused of abuse by 14 dioceses across the state.
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But several U.S. dioceses in recent months have identified former bishops, priests and deacons who were accused of sexually abusing children.
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Like many dioceses, the Brooklyn diocese has confronted waves of parish mergers and closures as the number of parishioners has shrunk.
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Take one example: There's a bank called Allied Irish Banks, and some of the dioceses—Los Angeles was one of them.
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Illinois dioceses have publicly identified 185 clergy members as having been "credibly" accused of child sexual abuse, the attorney general said.
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But Mr. Poust said that dioceses in Minnesota and Delaware had filed for bankruptcy after a flood of sexual abuse claims.
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The dioceses of Allentown, Erie, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Scranton said they were cooperating with the investigation but declined further comment.
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The grand jury's report covered only six of the state's eight dioceses — and did not include the populous archdiocese of Philadelphia.
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Schuette's office announced last month that it would be looking into possible sexual abuse by priests in the state's seven dioceses.
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Here's an examination of the bankruptcy filings of the Boy Scouts, 23 US Catholic dioceses and religious orders and USA Gymnastics.
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Allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, especially with minors, have roiled dioceses across the United States and in other countries.
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Since 2002, Catholic dioceses dealing with sexual abuse allegations have been forbidden from entering into confidentiality agreements unless victims requested them.
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Most of the accusations dated to before 2002, when many Catholic dioceses in the United States instituted new child safety protocols.
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D) released a jury inquiry into six of the state's Catholic dioceses, including Harrisburg, in 2018.
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Over 900 clergy accused of sexually abusing children are not included in dioceses' public lists of those credibly accused, AP reports.
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Two other dioceses, Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown, have previously been the subject of grand jury investigations; both investigations produced comparable results.
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Diocese spokeswoman Carolyn Cronin says four men are currently going through the application process, but all of them are from other dioceses.
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That window is set to open in August and will allow survivors to sue New York dioceses, including through class-action lawsuits.
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Pennsylvania officials have released a landmark grand jury report that identifies more than 300 "predator priests" who molested children in six dioceses.
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The grand jury investigation involved the subpoenaing of a staggering half-million pages of reports from dioceses and churches over two years.
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That set off a global wave of investigations that found similar patterns at dioceses around the world, undercutting the church's moral authority.
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"The dioceses also often found reasons to discredit survivors' stories of abuse by focusing on the survivors' personal lives," the report says.
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However, before he retired, he initiated the division of the Archdiocese of Manila into multiple dioceses all run independently under different bishops.
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I know you finally spoke out to us -- in a letter -- about the horrific allegations of sexual abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses.
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Meanwhile, more and more US Catholic dioceses and archdioceses have canceled Mass and nearly 20 have lifted the obligation to attend Mass.
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On Thursday alone, all eight Catholic dioceses in New York were issued subpoenas, and the New Jersey attorney general announced an inquiry.
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Several of the dioceses issued statements apologizing to victims and saying they were taking steps to ensure any criminal behavior was stopped.
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So dioceses do what they can to keep places of worship open — for the faithful and tourists alike — even outside liturgical hours.
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A nearly 153-page report investigating abuse in six dioceses over a period of 70 years documents more than 300 abusive priests.
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Two of the dioceses — Greensburg and Harrisburg — tried to quash the grand jury investigation last year, but later backed off that stance.
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The sheer volume of claims led to speculation that one or more of the eight dioceses in New York could declare bankruptcy.
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City officials told the Daily News that they&aposre speaking with dioceses in New York in hopes of getting the policies changed.
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The report shines light on abuses dating back to the 1940s in Catholic dioceses in Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton.
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In August, a statewide grand jury released a report detailing extensive sexual abuse and cover ups in six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania.
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Hickton, the former federal prosecutor, said the Justice Department has preferred to let state officials take the lead in investigating Catholic dioceses.
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In its statement, Snap said that it believed the lists, which were compiled by the dioceses at their own discretion, were incomplete.
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And on Thursday, the Department of Justice subpoenaed seven Pennsylvania dioceses as part of a national-level investigation into clerical sex abuse.
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But the six Illinois dioceses have so far only publicly identified 300 clergy members as having been "credibly" accused of sexual abuse.
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"The dioceses also often found reasons to discredit survivors' stories of abuse by focusing on the survivors' personal lives," Madigan's report noted.
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But the six Illinois dioceses have so far only publicly identified 185 clergy members as having been "credibly" accused of sexual abuse.
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All current bishops for the dioceses were able to testify before the grand jury, Krumenacker wrote, but only the Erie bishop did so.
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WHAT TO EXPECT The grand jury investigated six of the state&aposs eight dioceses, which collectively minister to more than 1.7 million Catholics.
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The report was written by a grand jury that took around two years to investigate six of the eight dioceses in the state.
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The Holy Spirit Study Centre, run by the diocese of Hong Kong, estimates that there are 10 million believers spread over 144 dioceses.
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A Pennsylvania grand jury's report details cases of clergy child sexual abuse going back decades in six of the state's Roman Catholic dioceses
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The other dioceses investigated are in Pittsburgh and Greensburg in the western part of the state and Allentown and Scranton in the east.
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It is said that the individual dioceses, various Catholic religious orders and the Vatican in aggregate comprise of the world's largest land holders.
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The Associated Press reported Thursday that prosecutors have served subpoenas for dioceses across Pennsylvania and are seeking documents and testimony from church leaders.
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The FBI investigation comes two months after a grand jury report identified more than 300 priests accused of sexual abuse across Pennsylvania's dioceses.
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August 53 - A grand jury report is published documenting credible allegations of abuse by more than 300 "predator priests" in six Pennsylvania dioceses.
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There he blessed three small crosses which will be sent to the dioceses of El Paso, Ciudad Juarez and Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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More than 265 dioceses in the US have publicly named priests, deacons, monks, and worshippers accused of historic child abuse since August 22002.
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Hawley told The Hill he had asked for similar access to secret archives held by Catholic dioceses based in Jefferson City and Springfield.
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The lengthy report, released Tuesday afternoon, investigates clergy sexual abuse dating to 1947 in six dioceses: Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton.
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Then in 2005 and again in 2007, two New Jersey dioceses settled privately with two men alleging abuse or harassment at McCarrick's hands.
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Critics have raised doubts over how complete the lists are, as the dioceses and orders were making the disclosures at their own discretion.
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The Department of Justice has subpoenaed records from seven of Pennsylvania's eight dioceses as part of a wider investigation into clerical sex abuse.
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The Justice Department has opened an investigation into Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania that are accused of covering up sexual abuse for decades.
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Two New Jersey dioceses where he was a bishop -- Metuchen and Newark -- have acknowledged paying settlements to men who accused McCarrick of abuse.
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The Archdiocese of Philadelphia, and the dioceses of Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton acknowledged on Thursday they had received federal subpoenas.
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News of the federal investigation into Pennsylvania dioceses became public just one day after state lawmakers failed to approve any of those measures.
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The task force will examine whether the dioceses have complied with those agreements, as laid out in a memorandum of understanding in 2002.
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The yearning for a response from Pope Francis yielded on Friday a first step to holding bishops accountable for abuse in their dioceses.
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Not only did he consult bishops at multiple synods, he invited nonvoting married couples to weigh in and conducted a survey through various dioceses.
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The four U.S. dioceses where he served - New York, Metuchen, Newark, and Washington, D.C. - carried out separate investigations to feed into the Vatican report.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Latest on a grand jury report on clergy abuse in six Pennsylvania Roman Catholic dioceses (all times local): 2:25 p.m.
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The report details cases going back decades in six of Pennsylvania's Roman Catholic dioceses and includes allegations of cover-up efforts, the court said.
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Joe Weir, a priest in the Orthodox Church in American Dioceses of the Midwest, contends that Christians should look beyond a pro-life candidate.
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The report documents decades of allegations of abuse and cover-ups in six of the state's eight Catholic dioceses, according to the news site.
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More than 140 religious orders and Roman Catholic dioceses have released similar lists, and more than 100 of those have been updated since Pennsylvania's.
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Illinois' attorney general says the state's six dioceses have failed to disclose accusations of sexual abuse against at least 500 priests and clergy members.
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That was the year American bishops passed the Dallas Charter, requiring that dioceses report all allegations of sexual abuse of minors to public authorities.
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Roman Catholic dioceses across Pennsylvania said they had received federal grand jury subpoenas in a Justice Department investigation of sexual abuse in the church.
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But dozens of bishops have decided to take action by releasing lists of the priests in their dioceses who were credibly accused of abuse.
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Historically, instances of clerical sex abuse have been handled internally, by the churches and dioceses themselves, or in some cases by state legal officials.
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Shapiro said at the time that it was largely based on documents from secret archives kept by the dioceses, including handwritten confessions by priests.
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In New York, Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, said that all of the dioceses in the state would cooperate.
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In recent weeks, many have announced that they are releasing the names of priests in their dioceses who have been credibly accused of abuse.
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Other organizations in crisis over similar legacies of sexual abuse and secrecy have also sought bankruptcy protection, including Roman Catholic dioceses and U.S.A. Gymnastics.
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But cases handled before then may have silenced victims with binding legal terms -- a situation the New Jersey dioceses now are trying to rectify.
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The government said it was hoped that the new accord would encourage other parishes and dioceses to "positively consider" how they could follow suit.
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Plaintiffs in the lawsuit claim they were sexually abused as children by clergymen in New York state dioceses, one at the age of 9.
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On Wednesday, the bishops of the five Catholic dioceses in New Jersey released the names of nearly 200 priests who had been credibly accused.
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The law firm derived the accusations and details in the report released Monday from lawsuits, settlements, claims to the dioceses, and other public records.
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Early in September, New York's attorney general issued civil subpoenas to all eight Catholic dioceses in the state as part of a sex abuse investigation.
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Hierarchical accountability remains a pressing issue that the Vatican has not fully confronted in the numerous dioceses of the world where the scandal was suppressed.
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The two Pennsylvania dioceses not covered in the report — Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown — were investigated in separate grand jury reports in 2005 and 2016, respectively.
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Many of the accused were already identified in news reports and court records, but weren't listed on the dioceses' official lists, per the Chicago Tribune.
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Now is the time for all state attorneys general and district attorneys to empanel grand juries to investigate the Roman Catholic dioceses in their jurisdictions.
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The Harrisburg list includes 37 priests, three deacons and six seminarians from the diocese, nine clergy members from other dioceses and 16 from religious communities.
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Some 12 U.S. dioceses have filed for bankruptcy since the scandal broke, in part due to more than $3 billion in settlements paid to victims.
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A grand jury report released in Pennsylvania last week detailed years of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy in six dioceses in that state.
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Five former priests at various dioceses in Michigan have been charged with various criminal offenses related to sexual misconduct, the state's attorney general announced Friday.
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In many cases, the accusations have "not been adequately investigated by the dioceses or not investigated at all," Madigan's office said in a statement Wednesday.
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In recent months, several Catholic dioceses have responded to outside scrutiny by issuing lists of priests who have been "credibly accused" of sexually abusing minors.
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Beginning in January, Catholic dioceses are undertaking a nearly two-year initiative to reach out to Hispanic Catholics and better integrate them into the church.
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New York's attorney general issued civil subpoenas last week to all eight Roman Catholic dioceses in the state as part of a sex abuse investigation.
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In September, the attorney general in New York announced a statewide civil investigation into allegations of sexual abuse and cover-up in Roman Catholic dioceses.
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In Pittsburgh — site of some of the most ghastly acts in the report — and in dioceses around the country, Catholics grappled with the report's findings.
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In other dioceses, bishops have struck a conciliatory tone, describing the releases as a gesture meant to help victims heal and mollify an unsettled flock.
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A pattern emerged from the files in which dioceses often failed to find a claim credible if there was only one victim, the report said.
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Only two Illinois dioceses — Chicago and Joliet — had published lists of clergy credibly accused of abuse of minors before the attorney general opened its investigation.
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The task force will be led by Essex County Prosecutor Robert D. Laurino and will be empowered to subpoena records from the state's six dioceses.
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The Harrisburg and Greensburg dioceses had tried last year to end the grand jury's investigation, according to court records reported by The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Two New Jersey dioceses secretly paid settlements, in 20003 and 2007, to two men, one of whom was Mr. Ciolek, for allegations against the archbishop.
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The nonprofit group, which counts more than two million youth participants, follows Catholic dioceses and U.S.A. Gymnastics in seeking bankruptcy protection amid sex-abuse cases.
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Rival claims to lead some Chinese dioceses and the absence of bishops in others have left many priests and parishioners isolated or feuding, they said.
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They pledged to report priests accused of abuse promptly to police, include lay experts in abuse investigations and adopt "safe environment" training in their dioceses.
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There, she vowed to spread the gospel of rational, low-cost investing to as many Catholic dioceses and their 403(b) plans as she could.
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Nessel's office said it is investigating 300 tips and has asked the dioceses to suspend their own internal review processes until the investigation is over.
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She also accused church officials of asking victims to report abuse only to the dioceses and pressuring victims into non-disclosure agreements or confidential settlements.
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The Pope also proposed dioceses and Catholic groups not publish lists of clergy accused of abuse before a preliminary investigation and "definitive" condemnation have occurred.
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But the state Superior Court recently ruled that some victims can sue dioceses, even if the statute prevents them from suing the alleged abusive priests.
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The report's breadth far outstrips the list that the dioceses released last February that named 188 diocesan priests and deacons credibly accused of abusing children.
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The new legislation requires all Catholic dioceses around the world to have a "public and accessible" system in place for reporting abuse by June 1, 2020.
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The subpoenas follow a state grand jury report in August that detailed hundreds of allegations of children being sexually abused by priests in dioceses across Pennsylvania.
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In January the Holy See was reported to have warned underground bishops in two dioceses that they would have to make way for officially approved clergy.
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Bishop Ronald Gainer issued a public apology Wednesday for the abuse and said the dioceses&apos prior bishops didn&apost adequately respond to all the allegations.
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Gil Jose Saez Martinez said Spanish dioceses do not keep documents showing that priests were moved between parishes because of reports or evidence of sexual abuse.
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He has said he would remain head of the dioceses in title and would continue to sign off on documents until the appeal process is over.
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The 900-page report, which investigated all but one of the state's dioceses, identifies over 1,000 victims of child sexual abuse and over 300 predatory priests.
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A grand jury report in August detailed more 1,000 alleged instances of sexual abuse by more than 300 Catholic Church members in six Pennsylvania Catholic dioceses.
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On Tuesday, to collective horror, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court released the results of its grand jury investigation into child sexual abuse in the state's Catholic dioceses.
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While dioceses did take some complaints seriously and removed priests from ministry, it's clear that accused priests did not consistently face justice from their own church.
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New York's attorney general issues civil subpoenas for all eight Catholic dioceses in the state to investigate how they handled accusations of clergy sexually abusing children.
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Last week, federal investigators instructed all dioceses in the nation to preserve all church documents related to sex abuse because of a Department of Justice inquiry.
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By and large, dioceses have remained unwilling to preemptively publish the names of alleged abusers, even those who have been removed from ministry for their actions.
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At the same time, Francis has allowed a tacit decentralization of doctrinal authority, in which different countries and dioceses can take different approaches to controversial questions.
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There are [about 200] dioceses in the United States, and I went online, and was only able to find financial information for about 80 or 90.
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Church leaders in many dioceses have hailed the release of lists of accused priests as a move toward transparency that will help quell tensions with followers.
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" The report concluded that the Catholic dioceses in Illinois were incapable of investigating themselves and "will not resolve the clergy sexual abuse crisis on their own.
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The dollar amount is on a similar scale to settlements paid by some U.S. Roman Catholic dioceses as a result of its clergy sex abuse scandal.
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Roman Catholic dioceses have shared the names of hundreds of priests — who led parishes and worked in schools — who were credibly accused of sexually abusing children.
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It also follows a searing grand jury report in Pennsylvania that found more than 1,1893 identifiable victims of sexual abuse over several decades at local dioceses.
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But he said he had told the United States attorney that the bishops' conference "lacks the authority" to make sure that the dioceses retain their documents.
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In all, 503 US Catholic dioceses and religious orders have filed for bankruptcy protection during the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, according to BishopAccountability.
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The report, which covered six of the state's eight Catholic dioceses, including Harrisburg, found more than 1,000 identifiable victims and prompted similar investigations in other states.
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Racine's investigation comes just days after reports that federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania have issued subpoenas to the state's eight Catholic dioceses to probe for potential crimes.
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The six Pennsylvania dioceses named in the scathing grand jury report even received advanced copies of the 800-page document in May, according to Crux News.
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Victims and their advocates praised Cardinal Keeler, but defenders of the church criticized him and the other bishops as having betrayed the priests in their dioceses.
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Herring's announcement comes just days after reports that federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania have issued subpoenas to the state's eight Catholic dioceses to probe for potential crimes.
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In Michigan on Thursday, State Attorney General Dana Nessel held a press conference to update the public on her investigation of the state's seven Catholic dioceses.
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Eight of Chile´s 27 dioceses are still led by apostolic administrators after the pope accepted the resignations of seven bishops and a several others retired.
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The source told CNN that the binder is a 300-page briefing book prepared by the dioceses' attorneys for Malone when he became bishop in 423.
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A two-year state grand jury investigation targeted the dioceses of Erie, Greensburg, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Allentown and Scranton, which collectively minister to more than 1.7 million Catholics.
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The report indicates that it's "impossible" to say with certainty that no child abuse has taken place in recent years due to the dioceses' poor record-keeping.
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Remaining issues are to be resolved in small groups with the support of the church's secretariate while the bishops return to their dioceses for Christmas, Utembi said.
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Yet alone among the churches involved, its national body in Canada has refused to apologise on grounds that a decentralised structure leaves this duty to individual dioceses.
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In the meantime, he remains a priest and a member of the College of Cardinals, a Vatican inner circle of officials who lead dioceses around the world.
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The Illinois attorney general's office has found that the six Catholic dioceses in the state have failed to disclose sexual misconduct allegations against more than 85033 priests.
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New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood subpoenaed all eight state dioceses as part of an ongoing civil investigation into how the church reviewed allegations of sexual abuse.
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It's not like Penn State University, Michigan State University and the University of Southern California — homes to terrible abuse scandals — are any less culpable than Catholic dioceses.
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While other dioceses have created compensation programs, this one is "rather unique" in the amount of independence it has been given by the archdiocese, Mr. Feinberg said.
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"We learned of these abusers directly from their dioceses -- which we hope is a sign that the church is finally changing its ways," the grand jurors said.
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At least 298 clergy members across the state have faced "credible abuse" allegations going back to the 1940s, the lists compiled by the 15 Texas dioceses show.
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While some dioceses noted that some of the accused are linked to ongoing investigations, it's unclear whether the release of the names could result in criminal charges.
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The Catholic Church has paid over $22 billion to victims across the United States, and 2000 dioceses and religious orders have filed for bankruptcy as a result.
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"It's like a playbook for concealing the truth," said the grand jury, whose investigation identified more than 1,000 sexual abuse victims in six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania.
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The Pennsylvania grand jury met for two years, reviewed 500,000 documents from dioceses' secret archives, and heard testimony from dozens of victims and the bishop of Erie.
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Then in 2004, after he began receiving counseling, he filed for a settlement from the church and received $80,000 from the Dioceses of Trenton, Metuchen and Newark.
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It is one of the 10 largest dioceses in the country, but it has never been led by a cardinal, as the Archdiocese of New York is.
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Citing internal documents from six Catholic dioceses, the Pennsylvania report showed that more than 300 priests had been credibly accused of sexually abusing more than 1,000 children.
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"I plan to reach out to the other dioceses in Illinois and have the same conversation and expect the bishops will agree and cooperate fully," she added.
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The bishops in Hartford, Kansas City, Mo., and most of the 15 dioceses in Texas were among the others who named accused priests in the past month.
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All 2500 dioceses in Texas have now shared the names of accused priests, though one diocese, the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth, started sharing names back in 28.5.
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All 15 dioceses in Texas have now shared the names of accused priests, though one diocese, the Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth, started sharing names back in 2007.
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The dioceses of Newark and Metuchen, New Jersey, simultaneously revealed that they had received three complaints of misconduct by McCarrick against adults and had settled two of them.
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Grand juries had previously found widespread sex abuse by priests in the state&aposs two other Roman Catholic dioceses, including in a landmark report in Philadelphia in 2005.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Latest on a legal dispute over making public a report into child sexual abuse in Pennsylvania Roman Catholic dioceses (all times local): 4:30 p.m.
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He also noted that 14% of the dioceses were flagged by the auditor for a follow-up visit because they were not following church protocol on child protection.
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"While not widespread, the fact that in some dioceses these recurring problems are still evident points to lack of diligence that puts children's safety at risk," Cesareo said.
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At least 693 clergy members across the state have faced "credible abuse" allegations going back to the 1940s, according to the lists compiled by the 15 Texas dioceses.
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"This dynamic in the Colorado Dioceses was a severe impediment to the protection of children, and it is one (they) are not done addressing," the independent report said.
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Increasingly, however, attention has shifted to the role of bishops in covering up for clerics, often by posting them to other dioceses where they continued to abuse minors.
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"The [attorney general's] Office has reviewed enough information to conclude that the Illinois Dioceses will not resolve the clergy sexual abuse crisis on their own," the report said.
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A month later, five Roman Catholic dioceses in New Jersey released the names of 188 clergy members who have been accused of sexually abusing children dating back decades.
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Feinberg's firm is also handling all of New Jersey's compensation program, a statewide initiative that will likely launch in the summer, and five of the Pennsylvania dioceses' programs.
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"The dioceses in Pennsylvania did not want to publicly list all of those who had allegations ... there was no push by the church to do it," Gibson said.
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From 1987 until he moved to Rome in 2014, Pell had been one of Australia's highest-ranking church officials in its two largest dioceses, in Sydney and Melbourne.
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August A sweeping report by a grand jury in Pennsylvania accuses more than 300 "predator priests" of sexually abusing more than 1,19503 children in six dioceses since 1947.
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In addition to the New York Catholic dioceses and Boy Scouts, attorneys who spoke with VICE News are also preparing lawsuits against other religions, schools, orphanages, and hospitals.
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The inquiries come weeks after an explosive report detailing the abuse of children in dioceses across Pennsylvania, drawing outrage from Catholics worldwide and a condemnation from Pope Francis.
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A 1,400-page document compiled over two years, the report implicated 300 priests in the sex abuse of over 1,000 minors across six of the state's eight dioceses.
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Francis' decree gives church dioceses a year to establish offices and procedures to facilitate the reporting of abuse and to safeguard the privacy and reputation of the abused.
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Florida: Attorney General Pam Bondi announced plans in early October to launch a statewide investigation into Florida's seven dioceses, and opened a hotline for victims to come forward.
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Virginia: Attorney General Mark Herring announced in October that his office was investigating the state's two dioceses, and he provided victims with a hotline number to come forward.
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Haverstick argued that the church — or at least some of its dioceses — is also taking the initiative when it comes to publicly contending with the scope of abuse.
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News reports last week revealed that the Justice Department had opened an investigation into all eight Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania, and the diocese of Buffalo in New York.
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But a second former priest, who received a settlement from the New Jersey dioceses for abuse by McCarrick, did not describe such a limit to the physical contact.
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It included the transcript of an August 20 "reflection" that Garcia delivered after a Pennsylvania grand jury report painted a damning picture of six dioceses in the state.
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Such a process has been used when organizations like USA Gymnastics or various dioceses of the Catholic Church filed for bankruptcy after facing their own sexual abuse scandals.
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Citing internal documents from six Catholic dioceses -- including Pittsburgh -- the report showed that more than 300 priests had been credibly accused of sexually abusing more than 1,000 children.
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The New York State attorney general has issued subpoenas to all eight dioceses in the state, in the first statewide investigation of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church.
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In the past month, bishops in Hartford, Kansas City and most of the 15 dioceses in Texas were among those that shared the names of credibly accused priests.
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We have to be included in the leadership of our dioceses, but right now it feels like we are expected to stand on the sidelines and be cheerleaders.
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Although the so-called "Anderson Report" focused on the Archdiocese of Chicago and other dioceses in Illinois, its inclusion of female abusers suggests a potential next wave of accusations.
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The grand jury spent two years investigating allegations of child sex abuse in the dioceses of Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton, churches with some 1.7 million members.
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" Viganò, who called for "homosexual behavior" to be denounced, blamed the church's sexual abuse crisis on "homosexual networks which are now widespread in many dioceses, seminaries, religious orders, etc.
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In America as a whole, the Catholic ones have swapped nuns for professional teachers and have been hit financially as dioceses have paid compensation for historical sexual-abuse cases.
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Ever since the Boston Globe's 2002 revelations of widespread sexual abuse in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, a wave of lawsuits have been filed against dioceses around the nation.
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Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, is defending himself ahead of a forthcoming grand jury report investigating child sexual abuse in six of Pennsylvania&aposs Roman Catholic dioceses.
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Time is ticking down to decide what information to black out in a forthcoming grand jury report investigating child sexual abuse in six of Pennsylvania&aposs Roman Catholic dioceses.
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Allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, especially with minors, have roiled dioceses across the United States and in other countries, eroding confidence in the Church and the Pope.
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"As outlined in our policies, every professional employee agrees to follow the teachings, doctrine, and laws of the Catholic Church as part of the hiring process," the Dioceses said.
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"We feel certain that many victims never came forward, and that the dioceses did not create written records every single time they heard something about abuse," the report states.
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A spate of abuse scandals has battered Church credibility around the world and forced some dioceses to declare bankruptcy because of billions of dollars paid in settlements with victims.
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In the cases of the scores of priests whom I investigated, it was the Roman Catholic Church: its individual congregations, its dioceses, all the way up to the Vatican.
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" The report added, "We feel certain that many victims never came forward, and that the dioceses did not create written records every single time they heard something about abuse.
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Many dioceses have already said they will cooperate with local prosecutors, and they are likely to take the same stance in relation to the request to preserve their documents.
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The tip site is part of Attorney General Pam Bondi's ongoing criminal investigation into the seven Catholic dioceses in the state, according to a news release from her office.
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The Archdiocese of Detroit, and dioceses in Gaylord, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Marquette and Saginaw said their offices were served search warrants Wednesday morning from Attorney General Bill Schuette.
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Now the Boy Scouts of America are filing for bankruptcy, like USA Gymnastics and a bunch of Catholic dioceses in the United States before them, and for similar reasons.
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"I am Joseph, your brother," Cardinal Tobin told the group, which included lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Catholics from around New York and the five dioceses in New Jersey.
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More than 20 Catholic dioceses and religious orders in the United States, including the San Diego diocese, have filed for bankruptcy over the past 15 years, according to BishopAccountability.org.
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There are as many as 70 dioceses in China without a bishop, said Anthony S. K. Lam, the executive secretary of the Holy Spirit Study Center in Hong Kong.
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Its mandate is to investigate claims of abuse in all seven of the Catholic dioceses in New Jersey as well as any efforts to cover up acts of abuse.
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On Thursday, Roman Catholic dioceses across Pennsylvania said they had received federal grand jury subpoenas from the United States attorney's office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania requesting documents.
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As they spoke, many said they felt compassion from the grand jurors in the sweeping investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse and cover-ups in six of Pennsylvania dioceses.
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VATICAN CITY – The Vatican is drafting guidelines to help Catholic dioceses find appropriate ways to decommission unneeded churches so they don&apost end up as discos, gymnasiums or gelato shops.
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The report's release came eight months after the three dioceses agreed to open up their personnel files to Troyer's team of investigators and set up a compensation fund for victims.
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Catholic dioceses in New Jersey and Virginia on Wednesday separately released the names of a total of 246 clergy whom officials said have been credibly accused of sexually abusing children.
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Those conversations can be difficult in a church that calls homosexual acts "intrinsically disordered," and, in some dioceses, fires employees who have same-sex partners or advocate for LGBT rights.
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Similar patterns of abuse have since emerged at dioceses around the globe, undermining the church's moral authority and sapping its finances as it paid out billions of dollars in settlements.
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Separate from those dioceses, the Jesuits, formally known as the Society of Jesus, are one of Catholicism's most powerful orders of priests, with Pope Francis among its most famous members.
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Burials are deeply embedded in Christian tradition, and in the United States and elsewhere many dioceses still run graveyards and cemeteries, though cremation and other alternatives are on the rise.
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The 1970 law has been used to target Mafia bosses, professional sports leagues, anti-abortion activists, and Catholic dioceses accused of covering up sexual abuse by priests, among many others.
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Weeks later, a grand jury report out of Pennsylvania concluded that, since the 21978s, roughly 1963 priests had abused at least 225,22007 children in just some of the state's dioceses.
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Catholic dioceses keep personnel files as well as secret archives — confidential files that would contain any allegations of misconduct or details of treatment for problems such as addiction or pedophilia.
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Each state will take a different approach, due to the range of laws concerning the convening of grand juries and who has the authority to subpoena documents from Catholic dioceses.
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The Pennsylvania dioceses said they had received federal subpoenas following a state grand jury report that alleged over 300 Catholic priests in Pennsylvania had sexually abused children over 70 years.
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The New York, Brooklyn, and Rockville Centre dioceses have each begun independent mediation panels, which offer victims monetary settlements for their abuse if they agree to drop further legal action.
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Two New Jersey dioceses also publicly acknowledged for the first time that their offices had paid out settlements years before to two seminarians who accused the cardinal of sexual misconduct.
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Hundreds of people filed suits Wednesday against the Catholic Church or one of its several New York dioceses, per AP. This article has been updated with details about lawsuits filed.
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The names and allegations have already been made public through several sources, including the Bay Area dioceses' own public statements and groups devoted to exposing clergy misconduct, such as bishopaccountability.org.
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More than 85033 clergy members who have been accused of child sexual abuse were not included on lists released by their dioceses and religious orders, The Associated Press reported Friday.
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The money would support 27 projects in 16 Catholic dioceses including congregations that have asked for help providing housing, food, and other supplies, the Vatican said in an announcement released Saurday.
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The $301 million spent by dioceses and religious institutes on child protection efforts and costs related to abuse allegations represents a 14% increase from the previous year, according to the report.
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Previously release grand jury reports on the other two Pennsylvania dioceses — Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown— advocated a two-year window to allow people alleging long-ago abuse to pursue civil claims.
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The new church law provides whistle-blower protections for anyone making a report and requires all dioceses around the world to have a system in place to receive the claims confidentially.
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The state Supreme Court disclosed recently that the grand jury had identified more than 300 "predator priests" in the six dioceses that were investigated: Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton.
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A news release from the Archdiocese of Chicago said that the report, by lumping together all six dioceses, "makes it difficult to discern" which findings apply to the Archdiocese of Chicago.
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But Ms. Madigan was dismissive of suggestions that the six dioceses across the state ought not to be grouped together when it comes to judging their handling of abuse over decades.
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At the national level, the Department of Justice has also launched a federal investigation into clerical misconduct in Pennsylvania, examining both abuse and its cover-up in at least seven dioceses.
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In September the New York State attorney general issued subpoenas to all eight of the state's dioceses and announced a statewide civil investigation into allegations of sexual abuse and cover-ups.
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The magazine said the study, which examined more than 38,000 files from 27 dioceses, showed more than half of the victims were aged 13 years or under when they were abused.
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Some dioceses in the United States don't even allow girls to altar serve, and Pope Francis, the face of the inclusive Church movement, has made clear his opposition to ordaining women.
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"Sexual abuse of minors by members of Missouri's four Roman Catholic dioceses has been a far-reaching and sustained scandal," Attorney General Eric Schmitt said at a news conference Friday morning.
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Before the report was released, all four Catholic dioceses conducted their own investigations and produced their own lists of priests credibly accused of sexually abusing minors, also totaling approximately 160 names.
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Internal documents from six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania show that more than 300 "predator priests" have been credibly accused of sexually abusing more than 1,000 children, a grand jury report said.
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The report, two years in the making, revealed shocking accusations: More than 1,000 children had been abused by 300 Catholic "predator priests" in six Pennsylvania dioceses during the past 70 years.
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The investigation comes after a grand jury report in Pennsylvania found credible evidence that 301 "predator priests" abused more than 1,000 children in six dioceses dating back to the 1940s. 5.
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The allegations come amid heightened scrutiny in dioceses across the country after a scathing grand jury report last month found credible evidence of widespread sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Pennsylvania.
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New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal said on Thursday that his office was creating a task force to investigate allegations of sexual abuse by clergy members within the state's Catholic dioceses.
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ERIE, Pa. — The Justice Department has opened an investigation into Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania accused of covering up sex abuse for decades, a significant escalation in scrutiny of the church.
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The disclosure is just the latest reported in recent weeks by dioceses and religious orders across the country as law enforcement officials examine the church's response to an epidemic of abuse.
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"It is true that other dioceses across the country have views on same-sex unions that provide avenues for the children of these couples to attend Catholic schools," Father Maxim said.
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At least 15 states have launched investigations, while the Justice Department has subpoenaed records from seven of Pennsylvania's eight dioceses as part of a federal probe into sexual abuse by priests.
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In Pennsylvania, the state Supreme Court has ordered the release of an interim grand jury report on accusations of sexual abuse by clergy in six Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania,including Harrisburg.
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The investigations followed last year's damning report by a grand jury in Pennsylvania that accused more than 300 "predator priests" of sexually abusing more than 1,000 children in six dioceses since 1947.
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But The Young Pope was stunning, thoughtful and dreamlike, and even though key players have been strategically shifted to dioceses around the globe, its well-earned second series can't come soon enough.
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With its announcement, the Harrisburg Diocese became the second of six dioceses under investigation by the state to get out in front of a pending grand jury report on clergy sex abuse.
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A grand jury report examining six out of the eight Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania details more than 2628,28503 instances of sexual abuse allegedly committed by hundreds of Catholic priests in the state.
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Francis is a Jesuit, and like many members of Catholic religious orders, he tends to view the institutional church, with its parishes and dioceses and settled ways, as an obstacle to reform.
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More than 140 religious orders and Roman Catholic dioceses have released similar lists, and more than 100 of those have been updated since Pennsylvania's, according to the AP. View the discussion thread.
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Other I.R.C.P.s, which are similar to Feinberg and Biros's template but are not under their supervision, have been established elsewhere, including the Dioceses of Buffalo, in New York, and Harrisburg, in Pennsylvania.
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Claimants' lawyers stress that Feinberg and Biros are paid by the Church and communicate with a diocese's review board, an arrangement that, the lawyers say, can enable the dioceses to shape outcomes.
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" Moreover, he said, under Archbishop Hunthausen, Seattle in 21970 became "one of the first dioceses in the nation to implement a policy to address child sexual abuse by priests and church employees.
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Ms. Nessel estimated that her team had worked its way through only 5 or 10 percent of the hundreds of thousands of documents it seized from the state's seven dioceses last October.
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Cardinal Dolan has not published a comprehensive list of all priests who have been credibly accused of abuse on the archdiocesan website, as other dioceses have done in a move toward transparency.
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Since then, attorneys general in at least a dozen states have opened investigations into whether their local dioceses engaged in cover-ups of priests and other church employees who sexually abused minors.
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By 1986, Bishop McCarrick had been promoted by Pope John Paul II to a much bigger job: Archbishop of Newark, one of the country's largest dioceses with more than one million Catholics.
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Pennsylvania report A Pennsylvania grand jury report released August 14 on alleged abuse in six of the state's dioceses has placed the issue of abuse by Catholic clergy back in the spotlight.
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The attorney general's office also started a hotline and online form for victims or witnesses of sexual abuse at the hands of priests within the New York dioceses of the Catholic Church.
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Since the Pennsylvania grand jury report was made public, dioceses around the country have been releasing lists of names of accused priests, with groups for survivors countering that the lists are incomplete.
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The disclosures joined a flood of lists released in recent months by Catholic dioceses and religious orders across the country in response to the sex abuse scandal that has engulfed the church.
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That's according to two people familiar with the probe, who say federal prosecutors have served subpoenas on dioceses across the state that seek a trove of sensitive files and testimony from church leaders.
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"I am pleased to see that our task force's grand jury investigation has prompted the dioceses to finally take some measures to hold predator priests accountable," Grewal said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Over the course of a two year investigation, launched by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro's office, a grand jury heard several witness statements and pored over documents from six dioceses in the state.
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In a ruling last week, the Supreme Court disclosed that the grand jury had identified over 300 "predator priests" in the six dioceses that were investigated: Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Scranton.
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But Catholic foot-dragging over payment of their agreed share of the $1.4 billion settlement of a class-action lawsuit by former students prompted the federal government to take the dioceses to court.
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As of March 9, more than 80 of the nearly 200 dioceses in the U.S. had announced a St. Patrick's Day exemption to the no-meat rule, according to the Catholic News Agency.
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But the organization doesn't keep a public list of abuse allegations or perpetrators, as many Catholic dioceses have begun to do in the wake of the Roman Catholic Church's clergy sex abuse crisis.
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" Mr. Bermúdez said the pope was promoting prelates from many smaller dioceses — not only in the United States, but also in Venezuela and Mexico — who are "the classic Pope Francis-type of bishops.
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Of the remaining four, two have children or girlfriends and the other two head dioceses where there is already an existing bishop who has been approved by the Vatican, according to Catholic sources.
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State and federal inquiries would later find it to be one of the Catholic dioceses worst-affected by cases of abuse, though none of the complaints against Pell stem from his time there.
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But the dioceses that have declined to name priests are calling into question the church's broader efforts to make amends for the abuse scandals, stirring a growing backlash from victims and their supporters.
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The federal probes come on the heels of a damning grand jury report in Pennsylvania that found credible evidence that 301 "predator priests" abused more than 1,000 children in six dioceses since 1947.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York's attorney general issued civil subpoenas on Thursday to all eight Roman Catholic dioceses in the state as part of a sex abuse investigation, a law enforcement source said.
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Catholic dioceses in Illinois knew about accusations of sexual abuse against more than 500 members of the clergy and did not share those accusations with the public, the Illinois attorney general announced Wednesday.
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