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- Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds former prominent Jesuit priest’s conviction on abuse charges
- German court sentences priest to a 10-month suspended sentence for sexually abusing girls
- Ex-priest in Wis. sex abuse settlement removed from volunteer post with Mo. Special Olympics
- Vatican spokesman defends revised rules on clerical sex abuse, but says law ‘not everything’
- German Lutheran bishop accused of failing to thoroughly investigate abuse resigns
- Report: German Protestant bishop accused of failing to thoroughly investigate abuse to resign
- Report: German Protestant bishop set to resign amid abuse allegations
- Vatican revises its rules on clerical sex abuse, but critics see few substantive changes
- Vatican issues new sex abuse guidelines with few substantive changes
- UN panel says Vatican’s report on protecting children’s rights is almost 13 years overdue
- Vatican extends statute of limitations to 20 years for abusing minors, mentally disabled
- New Legionaries of Christ leader calls for examination of conscience of scandal-plagued order
- Court says US should consider giving Guatemalan women asylum because of female murder rate
- Fed. court opens door for all Guatemalan women to claim political asylum, citing murder rate
- Germany’s top bishop acknowledges mistakes in handling case of pedophile priest
- Pope names Vatican official to run scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ
- AP Exclusive: Vatican to crack down on priests who abuse mentally impaired adults
- Vatican to crack down on priests who abuse mentally impaired adults in new sex abuse norms
- Catholic Church says Cuba offers to free 52 political prisoners, let them leave country
- Conn. man says priest sexually abused him, paid hush money, threatened to report his mother
- Vatican mulls how to protect impaired adults from sex abuse by priests
- Proposals for Vatican’s new sex norms also include abuse of impaired adults
- Case of NH man charged with sexually assaulting teen church member heads to grand jury
- Vatican to soon issue sex abuse procedures, making permanent ad hoc norms currently in use
- Top rights group says Cuba political prisoners down to 167, nearly half of total from ‘06
- The monks’ progress: Fake diplomas, Africans in the basement and a no-tell motel monastery
- Lawsuit claims church protected abusive Salesian priest with transfers to 3 continents
- Belgian man complains over police raid of church sex abuse files, claims privacy violated
- Belgium tells Vatican that it, not the church, will investigate clergy abuse
- Supreme Court won’t hear Vatican appeal over Oregon clergy sex abuse lawsuit
- Vatican admonishes Austrian cardinal for his critical comments about former Vatican No. 2
- Belgium Catholic Church panel investigating clerical sex abuse shuts after police raid
- Pope says Belgian church sex abuse raids deplorable; stresses justice but also church autonomy
- Panel set up by Austria’s Catholic Church recommends up to euro25,000 ($30,700) for abuse victims
- Vatican says it is ‘astonished’ at the Belgian police raid
- Vatican asks judge to reject attempt in Ky. to get under-oath testimony from pope on abuse
- Official says police raid home, office of retired Belgian archbishop in sex-abuse probe
- Official says Belgian police raid home, office of retired archbishop in sex-abuse probe
- Catholic church accused of fraud in Calif., allowing alleged molester priest to work in Mexico
- Critical Austrian Catholics emboldened by sex abuse scandal in quest of church reform
- Alleged son of priest-founder of Legion says Catholic order knew his dad was a pedophile
- Vatican says Naples cardinal will cooperate in Italian corruption probe
- Mexican man to sue scandal-tainted Legion of Christ, says priest-founder was his abusive dad
- Well-known ex-priest charged with sexually molesting 12 youths in Italy
- German bishop facing sex abuse claims says he was pressured into resignation by his peers
- Los Angeles Cardinal Mahony’s deposition in clergy sex abuse details treatment of priest
- Pope praises priests as a gift to church and world; doesn’t mention sex abuse scandal
- Cuba frees ailing political prisoner, transfers 6 closer to home in deal with Catholic Church
- Pope strongly defends priestly celibacy in vigil with priests, doesn’t dwell on abuse scandal
- Vatican No. 2: While painful and damaging, abuse scandal shows need for spiritual renewal
- Sex abuse crisis gives new momentum to Catholic dissidents as pope convenes priests to Rome
- Women’s ordination groups march on Vatican ahead of priest rally, anticipated abuse apology
- Amish man accused of sexually assaulting 5 children in Missouri and Wisconsin
- Anti-American cleric urges Iraqi leaders to form new government within a week
- Iraqi official says Iranian troops cross into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels
- Gunmen kill third Iraqi parliamentary candidate from Sunni-backed alliance
- Sex abuse victims outraged as California diocese set to pay out annuity to molester priest
- Rights groups criticize restrictive federal prison units that they say house mostly Muslims
- Prosecutor says insufficient evidence found to charge LA church leaders in abuse scandal
- Prosecutor says insufficient evidence found to charge LA cardinal in clergy abuse scandal
- Prosecutors investigate top German Catholic cleric over claim he was accessory to abuse
- Danish police drop investigation into church sexual abuse cases seen as obsolete
- Cuba moves 7 political prisoners nearer homes, part of deal to better conditions behind bars
- Cuba moves some political prisoners nearer home, part of deal to better conditions behind bars
- Pope appoints nine-member panel to investigate Ireland abuse in fall
- Vatican abuse prosecutor warns of hell for perpetrators of child sex abuse
- Polish priest in Brazil sex-abuse case was suspended 2 years ago, Catholic Church says
- Minnesota attorney who has gone after abusive priests has new target: child pornographers
- Italian bishops’ conference: 100 cases of priest sex abuse in Italy over 10 years
- Attorney who has gone after abusive priests names his new target: child pornographers
- Top Italy bishop asks for families to trust church despite sex abuse scandal
- Brazil: Lawyers seek release of Polish priest accused of abuse, harboring ‘erotic dungeon’
- Australian archbishop says pedophilia scandal linked to church ‘culture’ of discretion
- Polish priest turns himself in to authorities in sex-abuse case involving former altar boy
- Brazilian news media: Polish priest turns himself in to authorities in sex-abuse case
- Brazil judge orders arrest of Polish priest suspected of sexually abusing former alter boy
- Italy bishop admits in court he knew of priest’s abuse rumors; lawyers accuse him of abetting
- French Muslims in face-covering veils speak out as bill to ban the attire goes to Cabinet
- 3 cult members sentenced for Md. child’s starvation death, leader gets 50 years
- Are bishops employees of the Vatican? Officials? Kentucky sex abuse case begs the question
- Vatican rejects appeals by closed Mass. churches, including 3 in vigil for years
- APNewsBreak: Vatican rejects appeals by closed Mass. churches, including 3 in vigil for years
- 2 Australian priests accused of sex abuse continued performing church-related duties
- AP Exclusive: Vatican details sex abuse defense in key US case, bishops aren’t employees
- Official: No fraud found in Iraq’s parliamentary election, official results due Monday
- Vatican’s top American has record of reform but missteps in disciplining abusers as bishop
- Prosecutors drop investigation of German bishop over sex abuse allegations
- Vermont’s Catholic Church to settle 26 priest sex abuse cases with nearly $18 million payment
- Vermont’s Catholic church settles 26 priest sex abuse cases with nearly $18 million payment
- Catholic Church in Brazil says sex abuse by clergymen is criminal, must not be covered up
- APNewsBreak: Vermont church to settle 26 priest sex cases with $17 million payment
- Pope recalls assassination attempt on John Paul while praying before Fatima shrine
- Spanish diocese says court probing alleged abuse of disabled at religious order home
- Pope makes most thorough admission on church’s guilt in clerical sex abuse scandal
