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...thing to investigate allegations of sexual abuse by priests, but it's quite another to keep those priests from further abusing their positions of authority - something the Chicago Archdiocese recently learned the hard way. Earlier this month, Father Daniel McCormack, 37, a priest at St. Agatha Church in Chicago?s Lawndale neighborhood, was charged with three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse against two boys from his parish, including one who was allegedly molested after the first accusations against McCormack surfaced last August. The case has shamed the archdiocese, which was hit with a $10 million suit last Friday...
...Soon after the charges were filed against McCormack, there was no shortage of finger-pointing between the archdiocese and police and prosecutors over who it was that actually dropped the ball. The original allegations were first made to the police, which ended up choosing not to press charges at the time, according to the Archdiocese. And when the church did ultimately talk directly to the boy's lawyer, they couldn't independently confirm the accusations against McCormack, who was allowed to stay on as pastor at the church and basketball coach in the parish school...
...McCormack's attorney, Patrick Reardon, wouldn't comment on the specifics of the case. But he did say that he views very skeptically the motives of critical groups like Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests."There seems to be a small group of people determined to make Chicago look bad and they're holding my client up," said Reardon. "I think the Cardinal is apologizing for mistakes that weren't made," he said...
...They blew it," said Jeff Anderson, a St. Paul, Minnesota attorney who has brought a suit against the archdiocese in the McCormack case. (Lawyers for the Archdiocese couldn't be reached for comment about the lawsuit.) "The fact is that the archdiocese has had a long time to deal with this issue, and here the Cardinal and Bishops are not doing the right thing. This isn?t [just] about the victims anymore. This is about them breaking promises...
...months, if not years, to meet the laws' requirements that it show it has truly changed its ways. In the short term, the flow of U.S. humanitarian aid to Palestinians will probably be disrupted. "We're going to have to review all aspects of our aid program," says Sean McCormack, spokesman for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...