Author: Gillian Flaccus
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Beating suspect turns case against priest
LOS ANGELES — Will Lynch is looking for justice in an unusual way. Charged with savagely beating the priest he says molested him as a child, he plans to try to use his trial to publicly shame the Rev. Jerold Lindner in court. Law experts say he faces an uphill battle. However, priest abuse victims…
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AP EXCLUSIVE: Future pope stalled 1985 pedophile case
LOS ANGELES — The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citing concerns including “the good of the universal church,” according to a 1985 letter bearing his signature. The correspondence, obtained by The Associated Press, is the strongest challenge yet to the Vatican’s insistence…