{"id":5721,"date":"2011-07-30T06:55:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T10:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/deaconsbench\/?p=5721"},"modified":"2016-09-30T17:40:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T21:40:14","slug":"philadelphia-monsignor-priests-to-be-tried-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2011\/07\/philadelphia-monsignor-priests-to-be-tried-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia monsignor, priests to be tried together"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2011\/07\/30\/monsignor_priests_to_face_joint_sex_abuse_trial\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Details: <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A monsignor who is the only US church official ever charged with  transferring pedophile priests to unsuspecting parishes will be tried  alongside three priests and a lay teacher accused of rape, a judge ruled  yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com\/community\/sites\/56\/2011\/07\/lynnmon-390x285.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5722\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.patheos.com\/community\/sites\/56\/2011\/07\/lynnmon-390x285-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><\/a>Common Pleas Judge Lillian Ransom  denied most pretrial requests made by Monsignor William Lynn, two  current priests, a former priest, and a former Catholic school teacher.  The men wanted their cases tried separately and asked for many of the  charges against them to be dismissed.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Lynn,  60,  is charged with conspiracy and child endangerment for allegedly  transferring priests he believed to be pedophiles. Lynn, who served as  secretary of clergy from 1992 to 2004 under former Cardinal Anthony  Bevilacqua, is the only US church official ever charged for his  administrative actions in the sex-abuse scandal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The  four others are charged in the same criminal case with raping boys in  their care. Three of them are accused of raping the same child, starting  when he was a 10-year-old altar boy in 1999, according to a scathing  grand jury report released in February that blamed  the church for  knowingly harboring priests who  abused children.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2011\/07\/30\/monsignor_priests_to_face_joint_sex_abuse_trial\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read more.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Details: A monsignor who is the only US church official ever charged with transferring pedophile priests to unsuspecting parishes will be tried alongside three priests and a lay teacher accused of rape, a judge ruled yesterday. 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