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Pervert Priest Checks Out of Sex Clinic; Stops By Restaurant to Hit on...
Assistant District Attorney Anthony Pomeranz returned to the witness stand Thursday to read another volume of Monsignor William J. Lynn's wacky grand jury testimony into the record.This has become a...
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"One of the Sickest Individuals" Gets Away With It
Father Louis DeSimone heard a commotion. When he went to investigate, he found Father Nicholas V. Cudemo "trying to calm a hysterical girl."The girl left the church shouting that she loved Father...
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Hopes Dim for Cardinal Bevilacqua's Resurrection
One of the featured coming attractions of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia sex abuse trial was the hope of seeing Cardinal Bevilacqua return from the dead to testify in a videotaped deposition.On Nov....
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Former Teen "Jesus" Talks About Being Abused in Perverted Archdiocese Passion...
He was a 13-year-old eighth-grader chosen by his classmates for the lead role in the annual parish passion play."I was elected to play Jesus," Shawn Magee told the jury Monday in the Archdiocese of...
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Ex-FBI Agent Tells About His Interview With Father Brennan
Former FBI Agent Jack Rossiter told jurors Monday about his interview with Father James J. Brennan, on trial for the attempted rape of a 14-year-old-boy.The jury has now heard three versions of the...
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Prosecutor Seeks Road Trip to Prove Monsignor Is A Liar
Assistant District Attorney Patrick Blessington got worked up in court Tuesday, repeatedly calling the defendant, Monsignor William J. Lynn, a liar."The lies, the outrageous lies that he [Lynn]...
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Priest Seeks Spiritual Highs; Winds Up Singing White Christmas to Chickens
Father James J. Brennan dreamed of becoming a Trappist monk. He thought the monastic life would bring him closer to God as he meditated and prayed in solitude for hours on end.But after he joined the...
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Detective, Defense Lawyer Battle Over the Soul of Father Brennan
A defense lawyer and a detective went snorkeling through the archdiocese's confidential files Wednesday in search of the real Father James J. Brennan.In an often tedious cross-examination, the defense...
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Nun Calls Out Monsignor Lynn
A nun who was sexually abused as a minor by a predator priest called out Monsignor William J. Lynn Thursday from her perch on the witness stand.It was a dramatic confrontation as the Archdiocese of...
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A Shredded Memo, A Dead Cardinal, and A Bunch of Liars
A secret list of sexually abusive priests that Cardinal Bevilacqua ordered shredded in 1994 is now at the center of a tangled web of deception, lies and suspicious memory lapses.Prosecutors in the...
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Planning a Gay Cruise to Thailand? Call Father Mike
Father Michael J. McCarthy like to sleep naked with teenage boys who stayed over his beach house at the Jersey Shore. He also ran a travel business on the side, planning gay cruises to places like...
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Monsignor Confesses He Wasn't Qualified To Be A Gumshoe
Monsignor William J. Lynn confessed to a grand jury back in 2004 that he wasn't qualified to investigate sexually abusive priests.The monsignor's admission came in response to a grand jury prosecutor,...
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Prosecution Train Goes Off Tracks In Archdiocese Sex Abuse Case
Imagine a train uncoupling as it rumbles down the tracks.That's what happened Thursday when Judge M. Teresa Sarmina tossed two charges of conspiracy to endanger the welfare of children that linked the...
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What Did The Prosecution Prove About Monsignor Lynn?
This post by Max Kennerly is cross-posted on his Litigation and Trial blog.On Thursday, after the prosecution closed their case, Judge Sarmina swiftly dismissed the conspiracy charges against Monsignor...
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All The Cardinal's Men: Who Are These Guys?
For the past eight weeks, as the prosecution presented its case against Monsignor William J. Lynn, district attorneys and defense lawyers kept mentioning three names: Cullen, Molloy and Cistone.The...
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Defense Claims Monsignor Lynn At Bottom Rung of Hierarchy
The defense in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia sex abuse case Tuesday presented Monsignor William J. Lynn as a caring priest who occupied the "bottom rung" of the church hierarchy.Lynn was one of six...
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"The Defense Calls Monsignor Lynn"
At 11:10 a.m. Wednesday in Courtroom 304 of the Criminal Justice Center, defense lawyer Thomas Bergstrom stood up and made a surprise announcement."Your Honor, the defense calls Msgr. Lynn."The...
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Fire-Breathing Prosecutor Assails Lynn As Liar; Monsignor's Supporters Break...
At the Catholic sex abuse trial, it was good day to feel like throwing up.On the witness stand Thursday, an amiable and smiling Monsignor William J. Lynn tried to defend the indefensible, by explaining...
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Did the Prosecution's "Smoking Gun" Hit the Wrong Target?
It was billed as the prosecution's smoking gun -- a worn gray folder of documents passed out to the jury, just before the prosecution rested its case.Inside the folder were several typed and...
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As Defense Rests, Big Mo Shifting
As the defense rested its case Tuesday in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia sex abuse trial, the momentum in the courtroom appeared to be shifting. The question is whether it had moved enough to matter.A...
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