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- June 24, 2017
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Ex-priest arrested for sexual misconduct, held without bail
- Associated Press
- February 10, 2017
A former Roman Catholic priest who was indicted in Maine on 29 counts of sexual misconduct dating to the 1980s has been arrested in Boston. Police and U.S. Marshals took 74-year-old Ronald Paquin into custody on Wednesday near a hospital in the city’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood.
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Former lay supervisor of altar boys denies abuse charges
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- September 30, 2016
A 79-year-old man who once supervised altar boys as a layman at a Catholic church in Boston has pleaded not guilty to charges that he sexually abused a young boy decades ago, after being arraigned on two counts of child rape and three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under age 14.
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The altar girls debate: Do they kill vocations, or feel valued?
- Church
- February 4, 2015
Blame it on those San Francisco values. That’s what the Rev. Joseph Illo believes is driving the uproar around his decision not to train girls to be altar servers at Star of the Sea Catholic Church. “I think the Church’s insistence on the distinctiveness of gender, that being male and
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