LA MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA SWORN IN
Newly inauggurated Mayor Antonio Villaraigos addresses the crowd as his wife, Corina, left, Cardinal Roger Mahony, former Vice President Al Gore and California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, right, clap during the inauguration ceremonies on July 1, 2005 in Los Angeles. (UPI Photo/Michael Tweed)
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Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, a Jesuit, is the new pope, the first Latin American in history, taking the papal name of Francis.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will pay nearly $10 million to settle claims by four men that a priest molested them when they were boys, attorneys say.
The cardinal who formerly led the Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese answered questions on clergy sex-abuse cases and said he'd be in Rome to vote for a new pope.
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The next Roman Catholic pope's primary priority will be confronting priest sex abuse scandals, a top cardinal said Thursday in Brazil.
Recently released documents in Los Angeles suggest Vatican bureaucracy hampered bishops trying to deal with allegations of abusive priests.
A Los Angeles cardinal removed over charges of concealing priest molestations will be able to vote on a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, a church spokesman said.
The Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese released 12,000 documents from files on priests accused of sexual abuse and ended Cardinal Roger Mahony's public duties.
Los Angeles archdiocese attorneys proposed, then dropped, a plan to turn over more than 30,000 pages of documents on alleged abuse by priests without key names.
A federal judge in California has ruled the Alien Tort Statute can be used to sue the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles on behalf of a Mexican boy.
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