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A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Minnesota seeks to trace a direct line from clergy sex abuse victims to the Vatican.

The Diocese of Duluth has added two priests to its list of clergy credibly accused of sexually abusing a child.

Seminaries like St. John's School of Theology and Seminary in Collegeville are seeing a rise in the number of young men entering the seminary.

An attorney has released the names of 17 clergy members accused of sexual abuse or misconduct with a minor in the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis.

The Diocese of Winona anticipates it will file for bankruptcy as a result of lawsuits filed by victims of clergy sex abuse.

A priest who is being sued by a woman who says he molested her as a child has resigned from the faculty at the University of St. Thomas.

A judge has split an upcoming clergy sex abuse trial against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis and the Diocese of Winona into two separate phases.

The head of the Archdiocese of St. Louis said under oath that he couldn't recall details about how he handled allegations of abuse against a Minnesota priest years ago.

A former Catholic priest has been charged in Dakota County with sexually abusing an altar boy from 1989 to 1991.

The Minnesota Appeals Court is reversing a sexual misconduct conviction and ordering a new trial for a St. Paul priest accused of having sex with a woman seeking spiritual advice.