PHILADELPHIA — A Roman Catholic church official who won an appeal of his landmark conviction in the priest-abuse scandal left state prison on Thursday after 18 months behind bars. Monsignor William Lynn left the prison in Waymart in northeastern Pennsylvania, ...

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Police are investigating an allegation that a Roman Catholic priest sexually abused a student while he was teaching at Baltimore’s Archbishop Curley High School in the 1970s. The Archdiocese of Baltimore says it’s cooperating with the investigation of the Rev. ...

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PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania appeals court explored arguments that a Roman Catholic church official was wrongly convicted for his handling of priest sex-abuse complaints, asking government attorneys pointed questions about their novel prosecution. Monsignor William Lynn, 62, is serving three ...

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The leading voice of Roman Catholic bishops opposing a contraception mandate in the Obama administration’s health care law was named Tuesday as the 16th Archbishop of Baltimore, the nation’s first diocese. Bishop William E. Lori, 60, comes from the Diocese ...

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GAITHERSBURG — A Gaithersburg priest is defending his decision to deny Communion to a woman at a funeral Mass because she is a lesbian. The priest has since been suspended. In a statement to the conservative website CNSnews.com, the Rev. ...

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Archbishop Edwin O’Brien said he was shocked to learn he had been named to lead an ancient Catholic order in the Holy Land, a move he said shows the importance Pope Benedict XVI places on the order’s mission. The Vatican ...

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DOVER, Del. — A Roman Catholic religious order agreed Thursday to pay $24.8 million to settle lawsuits filed by 39 survivors of priest sex abuse in Delaware. As part of the settlement, the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales also ...

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Siblings who claim to be the offspring of a priest’s affair with a church organist about 60 years ago cannot sue the religious society that hired him and allegedly covered up the fact he was their father, a Maryland appellate ...

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DOVER, Del. — A jury has assessed punitive damages of one dollar against a Catholic parish in Wilmington in a priest child sex abuse case. But the jury on Wednesday returned a punitive damage award of $30 million against former ...

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DOVER, Del. — A jury has found a Roman Catholic parish in Wilmington liable for a former priest’s sexual abuse of a young boy in the 1960s and has awarded damages of $3 million against the parish and $30 million ...

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