US sex abuse lawsuit against Vatican dismissed

MILWAUKEE — Lawyers for a man who was sexually abused decades ago by a priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf have withdrawn their lawsuit naming Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials as defendants.

Attorney Jeff Anderson filed the lawsuit in 2010. He claimed former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and his deputies knew about allegations of sexual abuse at the school and protected the priest from punishment.

Anderson's firm withdrew the case Friday in Milwaukee. He explains the action by saying the main thing he was seeking was information and accountability, and he's already received 30,000 pages of revealing documents through bankruptcy proceedings of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.

Vatican attorney Jeffrey Lena calls the explanation "ridiculous." He says the withdrawal is confirmation the lawsuit should never have been filed.

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This is all starting to make sense now. No abortions + No birth control = More Catholics. More Catholics = More sinners with church imposed guilt making more donations to the Catholic Church in order to buy their way into god's heavenly kingdom. This equates to more revenue for the Catholic Church + insures future fun for pedophile Catholic Priest. Thus explains:

Priest molestation of god's most precious gift (Children) + Catholic Church's decades long cover-up = Safe guarding of Catholic Church's vast fortunes from law suits = more money for the Catholic Church. See math and science can solve everything. Gee there must be something to this science stuff after all.

Good job Jeff Lena....