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Highlights of Pennsylvania’s Church scandal legislation
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Nov 21, 2019
The Pennsylvania state Senate on Wednesday passed a package of legislation inspired by the Catholic Church scandals to relax criminal and civil statutes of limitations on sexual abuse crimes.
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Pennsylvania senate takes up debate over sexual abuse victims’ lawsuits
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Nov 21, 2019
Pennsylvania’s Legislature moved closer Wednesday night to settling a yearslong battle over lifting criminal and civil statutes for child sexual abuse crimes in a debate growing out of Roman Catholic Church scandals.
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Senators weigh altering child sex abuse lawsuit time limits
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Oct 2, 2019
State senators are hearing from victims, church advocates, lawyers and others about whether Pennsylvania should alter rules for child sexual abuse claims that occurred too long ago to file a lawsuit.
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New chapter opens in Pennsylvania in fight over suing Church
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Sep 28, 2019
When post offices close Monday, the last victim compensation funds at Pennsylvania’s Roman Catholic dioceses will also close, hours before lawmakers plunge back into a years-old fight over whether to let long-ago victims of child sexual abuse sue perpetrators and institutions that may have covered it up.
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Annual Marian pilgrimage draws hundreds to abandoned town in Pa.
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Aug 31, 2019
About 500 pilgrims came to a small church on the side of a Pennsylvania mountain Aug. 25 to pray for peace.
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Suits allege abuse, cover-up in Pennsylvania diocese
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Aug 29, 2019
Frustrated by the Pennsylvania Legislature, four men are taking advantage of a shifting legal landscape to file suit against the Diocese of Scranton over decades-old allegations of clergy sexual abuse.
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