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Ex-priest arrested for sexual misconduct, held without bail

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.

Ex-priest imprisoned for decade indicted on new sex charges

Ronald Paquin, a former Roman Catholic priest who spent more than a decade in a Massachusetts prison for raping an altar boy, has been indicted in Maine on 29 counts of sexual misconduct dating to the 1980s. According to a York County District Attorney some counts involve a child under 14.

Founder of clergy abuse group quits in second loss after lawsuit
- Church in the US, Religion News Service
- February 4, 2017
The lawsuit by Gretchen Rachel Hammond names Barbara Blaine, David Clohessy and other SNAP leaders as defendants and alleges that “SNAP does not focus on protecting or helping survivors – it exploits them.”
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Project will digitize Catholic records of Boston Archdiocese
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- January 10, 2017
Two Boston institutions are joining efforts to create a database of parish records of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, ordinations, first communions and other pivotal life events which they say will help people better research their ancestors and how they came to Boston.
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Chicago-Boston-D.C. axis key to Francis’s agenda in America
- Analysis, Church in the US
- December 15, 2016
While Boston, Chicago and Washington have always been important forces in American Catholic life, they haven’t always been exactly in alignment. That, however, is certainly not the case in 2016, when one could make a good case that those three cities now form a key “Pope Francis Axis” in the American church.
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