Sentences with phrase «archdiocese official»

(CNN)- A Philadelphia archdiocese official on trial for allegedly covering up the sexual abuse of children has asked a court to throw out charges against him based on a 1994 memo showing Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua ordered a list of suspected abusive Catholic priests to be destroyed.

Philadelphia (CNN)- Opening arguments started Monday in the first case in which a Roman Catholic archdiocese official is accused of covering up evidence of suspected sexual abuse of children.

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In 2012, the city council in Omaha, my former hometown, passed a gay - rights ordinance without official opposition from the Omaha archdiocese.

(CNN)- Opening arguments are scheduled for Monday in Philadelphia in the first case in which an official of a Roman Catholic archdiocese has been accused of protecting abusive priests by moving them from parish to parish.

In its wake, alleged victims of sexual abuse are suing the archdiocese and other high - ranking church officials because the report states the archdiocese knowingly withheld the identity of predator priests.

Like a growing number of other Catholic - school officials facing an inceasingly competitive market for teachers, Brother Shields, the archdiocese's...

Union teachers in the Roman Catholic archdioceses of Boston and New York have picketed church officials and called in sick in recent weeks to protest what they say is a lack of progress in contract negotiations.

Before making the final decision on which schools will close, archdiocesan officials will meet with school officials to discuss their situations, said Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the archdiocese.