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<p style="margin-bottom:11px">In a nearly unprecedented move by a bishop, a retired head of the Diocese of Albany, New York, has asked the Vatican that he be "returned to the lay state," or laicized.</p>
The records on Hubbard were created under disciplinary procedures mandated by Pope Francis to govern investigations of child sexual abuse allegations against bishops
A legal strategy being employed by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany lacks...
Passage of such a constitutional amendment before its early August legislative deadline, however, remains far from certain.
Two brothers allege that Gary Mercure, a former priest convicted of raping boys in Massachusetts, had sexually abused them with former Albany bishop