Quote:SAN DIEGO (AP) - Attorneys for nearly 150 people who claim sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests made nearly 10,000 pages of previously sealed internal church documents public Sunday, revealing at least one previously unknown decades-old case in which a priest under police investigation was allowed to leave the U.S. after the Diocese of San Diego intervened.

After a three-year legal battle over the Diocese of San Diego's internal records, a retired San Diego Superior Court judge ruled late Friday that they could be made public. The records are from the personnel files of 48 priests who were either credibly accused or convicted of sexual abuse or were named in a civil lawsuit.

Quote:SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A Roman Catholic priest has been arrested on charges that he solicited a hit man to kill a teenager who had accused him of sexual abuse. Authorities said John Fiala first offered the job to a neighbor, who blew the whistle and helped police arrange a sting. They said Fiala got as far as negotiating a $5,000 price for the slaying before investigators moved in.

(November 23, 2010 at 10:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: This is, naturally, the next step!

Thou Shalt Not Kill........unless.

Quote:SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A Roman Catholic priest has been arrested on charges that he solicited a hit man to kill a teenager who had accused him of sexual abuse. Authorities said John Fiala first offered the job to a neighbor, who blew the whistle and helped police arrange a sting. They said Fiala got as far as negotiating a $5,000 price for the slaying before investigators moved in.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/2010112...6QFG0.html

(November 23, 2010 at 10:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Thou Shalt Not Kill........unless.

Quote:BRUSSELS: The Catholic Church, battered by sex abuse scandals from the US to Belgium, is facing more damaging allegations in the Netherlands.

Figures released by an investigative commission showed that almost 2000 people had made complaints of sexual or physical abuse against the church, in a country with only 4 million Catholics.

''The Roman Catholic Church has not faced a crisis like this since the French Revolution,'' Peter Nissen, a professor of religious history at Radboud University in the Netherlands,

Quote:NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Catholic nun with a reputation for gambling trips to Atlantic City was accused of embezzling more than $1.2 million (760,000 pounds) from a college where she oversaw the school's finances, officials said on Friday.