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...part is publicly against any payout of compensation in sexual-abuse cases.) Church officials claim that even when an archbishop is on record as being the chairman of a diocesan corporation, whether a parish or a school, the diocese is not responsible for the acts of any parish priest. Of course, Big Tobacco once thought--wrongly, it turned out--that it was immune from lawsuits by individual smokers...
...news reports. Stokes, 26, was a doting father and an employee in good standing at Superman's Barbershop in Baltimore, Md. The TV runs constantly at Superman's, and Stokes was clearly troubled about the Roman Catholic Church's sex-abuse scandals. "He made comments that the priests should be punished," says Superman's co-owner Damon Fisher. "We were watching last week, and he said, 'It's not fair.'" Last Monday Stokes drove to the home of the Rev. Maurice Blackwell, who had baptized him, and--after reportedly requesting but not getting an apology for an act allegedly committed...
...after confessing to shooting Blackwell three times, is this: If you do set up lay boards, for God's sake, listen to them. Clerics and laypeople alike are also praying that the shooting--along with the apparent suicide last week of the Rev. Alfred J. Bietighofer, a Bridgeport, Conn., priest accused of sex abuse--foreshadows no trend...
...first African American to serve as pastor of a Catholic church in Baltimore, tending a thriving, mostly black congregation at St. Edward. The boy passed two police lie-detector tests, but lacking a witness or physical evidence, the state dropped the case. And the church backed its priest, at least in public. Privately, according to Margaret Burns, a spokeswoman for the Maryland state's attorney, in 1993 "the archdiocese acknowledged that there was reason to believe that sexual abuse had occurred." Blackwell moved from the church residency into the nearby home of his mother, and was made to give...
...shot priest has been released from the hospital. Stokes is out of jail on $150,000 bail but faces charges not only of attempted murder but also of handgun violations. After the shooting, Cardinal Keeler described the situation as "exquisitely painful." Writing in the Baltimore Sun, he admitted that Blackwell was "credibly accused of abuse" in 1993, and "in light of what has occurred and what was revealed in 1998, I would not make the same decision today." On Friday he forced the retirement of a priest accused of molestation 20 years ago. One thing, however, stayed the same...