priest abuse

In a rare agreement with prosecutors, a priest who admitted to violating a court order barring him from unsupervised contact with minors has agreed to ask to be laicized.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria, Ill., will pay $1.35 million to settle a case of sexual abuse that took place when Newark Archbishop John J. Myers was in charge there, a former altar boy's lawyer said Monday.

Two more former students at a prominent New Jersey Catholic school claim in a lawsuit they were sexually abused by clerics in the 1970s and `80s.