Sex-Abuse Suit Against Archdiocese Rejected by Top Court
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The U.S. Supreme Court refused to reinstate a lawsuit claiming the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis was negligent by employing a pedophile as a priest, a job that put him in contact with children.
The justices today rejected an appeal challenging a Missouri court’s ruling that the Constitution’s religious-freedom protections shield churches from lawsuits questioning practices for employing and supervising the clergy.