Deaf Culture
ST. FRANCIS, Wis. - Steven Geier says that four times in the mid-1960s, the Rev.
ST. FRANCIS, Wis. - Steven Geier says that four times in the mid-1960s, the Rev.
ST. FRANCIS, Wis. - Arthur Budzinski says the first time the priest molested him, he was 12 years old, alone and away from home at a school for the deaf.
ROME - The Vatican says there was no cover-up in the church's handling of the case of a priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys in the United States and has denounced what it says is a campaign to smear the pope.
VATICAN CITY - The Vatican on Thursday strongly defended its decision not to defrock an American priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys in Wisconsin and denounced what it called a campaign to smear Pope Benedict XVI and his aides.
