SSDD: Same Stuff Different Diocese: Vermont
Quote:Vermont Catholic leaders knew Father Edward Paquette had a history of pedophilia in Massachusetts and Indiana when they hired him and assigned him to a parish in Rutland.That's according to...
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Quote:On Jan. 25, 1972, John Marshall became Vermont's seventh Catholic bishop. Two months later, an arsonist burned Burlington's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception to the ground. Five days after...
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Quote:Vermont Catholic leaders knew the Rev. Edward Paquette had a history of pedophilia in Massachusetts and Indiana when they hired him and assigned him to a parish in Rutland.Detailing the history...
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Quote:An extraordinary series of letters has come to light in the sexual abuse case against a former priest, revealing the failure of the Catholic clergy in Vermont to face squarely the crimes...
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quote"The Paquette story mirrors many of the abuse cases that have come to light in recent years, most famously in the Boston area. It involves a priest given to criminal exploitation of children and...
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Quote:The year was 1972 and the newly appointed bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, the Most Rev. John A. Marshall, had a decision to make.The Rev. Edward Paquette, employed in...
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Quote:Vermont's Catholic church wants a judge to step down from a clergy sex abuse case.The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington said Judge Ben Joseph's decision to remove a gag order involving church...
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Quote:A national organization of people sexually abused by clergy is blasting Vermont Catholic Bishop Salvatore Matano for "attacking deeply wounded men and women who were raped as kids by priests."In...
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Looks like a save our stuff maneuver:Quote:To protect Vermont's 128 parishes and missions from "unjust attack," Burlington Bishop Salvatore R. Matano has placed each under a charitable trust.That...
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Quote:The lawyer pressing 19 priest misconduct lawsuits against Vermont's Catholic Church says the statewide Diocese of Burlington is waging a "campaign of intimidation" against judges and potential...
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Quote:Catholic dioceses are scrambling to protect their assets in light of all the sex crime lawsuits. The central authority of a bishop has been a legal weak point in Rome's struggle with sex abuse...
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Quote:The Voice of the Faithful press release, sent from its national headquarters in Newton, Mass., ended with a call for Vermont Catholics to work toward church reform.The Catholics of Vermont care...
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Quote:Lawyer: Bishop intimidated prosecutorsDid Vermont's Catholic Church try to stop a state's attorney from prosecuting a priest who's now the center of a sex abuse trial?Lawyers for a man suing the...
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BURLINGTON, Vt.-A judge says a jury can consider awarding punitive and compensatory damages to a former altar boy suing the state's Roman Catholic diocese over sexual abuse he says he suffered at the...
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Many Roman Catholics believe that the worst of the clergy sex-abuse scandal is over. But in the Diocese of Burlington, it's deepening. The case of one cleric, assigned to Vermont parishes in the 1970s...
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The latest in a string of priest sexual misconduct trials against the state's largest religious denomination just started. So why are lawyers already considering appeals to the Vermont Supreme Court?...
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All of Vermont's top faiths report declining involvement (a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life ranks the state 45th for overall worship attendance, 43rd for frequency of prayer and...
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Vermont Catholic Church faces big drop in numbersThe 118,000-member diocese still dwarfs the state's next most popular religions, the 14,500-member United Church of Christ, the 11,963-member United...
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Vermont's Roman Catholic Diocese, which agreed last year to pay $17.6 million to settle more than two dozen priest sex abuse suits, is now facing five new ones.Four of the suits involve claims against...
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