APBy MARYCLAIRE DALE - Associated Press | AP – Wed, Jul 27, 2011


PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia man at the heart of a groundbreaking criminal case against the Philadelphia archdiocese has filed a related civil suit, charging that the church let two priests and a teacher serially rape him as a young altar boy.

The 23-year-old man accused the Roman Catholic church in Philadelphia of "callous indifference" to his suffering as a 10-year-old schoolboy.

The suit seeks at least $450,000 in damages from the archdiocese and other defendants. The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported Wednesday on the suit, filed this week by a man identified as "Billy" in a February grand jury report.

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His successor, Cardinal Justin Rigali, was sharply criticized for his handling of sex-abuse complaints by the lay chair of the archdiocese's own investigative panel.

The pope last week named Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver to succeed Rigali.


Note: Archbishop Chaput is an Opus Dei rising Star. Interesting that the Pope would have someone of his background sent to deal with this.

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