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Pa. Catholic diocese sets up $1.25 mln abuse fund

PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh has voluntarily set up a $1.25 million fund to aid the victims of 32 cases of clergy sexual abuse, an attorney for the victims said on Monday. Ron Lengwin, a spokesman for the diocese, said church authorities had determined that many of the allegations of abuse were "credible" but he said they had not investigated every instance. To continue reading, click here.

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"It is necessary to recover some basic aspects of finances, such as the primacy of labor over capital, of human relationships over purely financial transactions, and of ethics over the sole criterion of efficiency," Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to the United Nations.

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