U.S. Judge Dismisses Pope From Civil Suit
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From Times Wire Reports
A U.S. judge dismissed Pope Benedict XVI from a civil lawsuit accusing him of conspiracy to cover up sexual abuse by a seminarian, ruling that the pontiff had immunity as a head of state.
The former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was accused of conspiring with the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and some of its officials to cover up the abuse of three boys in the 1990s.
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