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...harsh judgment on Hanlon is only the latest chapter in a plague of lawsuits that is bedeviling the Roman Catholic Church in America. The most famous case of sexual-abuse charges brought against a Catholic priest was dropped when the accuser of Chicago's Joseph Cardinal Bernardin admitted on Feb. 28 that he was not positive that the abuse, which he had remembered under hypnosis, had actually occurred. However, the church still faces hundreds of lawsuits around the country. Roderick MacLeish Jr., a Boston lawyer involved in civil actions against alleged child abusers, claims that of the 400 active cases...
...Bernardin struggles to be spirit and not flesh as he reflects on the case, saying he passed as swiftly as possible from "Why me?" and anger to compassion. His worst moment ("embarrassing and humiliating," he says) may have been when he was asked on camera whether he was sexually active...
...Bernardin Cleared...
Steven Cook dropped his $10 million sexual-abuse lawsuit against Chicago's Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, admitting that his hypnotically retrieved memories of sexual misconduct by Bernardin in the mid-1970s were "unreliable...
...CARDINAL BERNARDIN...