Saturday, February 23, 2013

Cardinal Dolan questioned on sex abuse

Lawyers questioned Cardinal Timothy Dolan for three hours during a legal deposition in New York about the sexual abuse of children by priests, officials said.

Wednesday's deposition came just one week before Dolan, considered a possibility to replace Benedict XVI as pope, is to leave for Rome, The New York Times said.

Lawyers questioning Dolan represent hundreds of people who said they were molested by priests in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, where Dolan was archbishop for seven years before becoming archbishop of New York, the Times reported.

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