James Talbot is accused of sexually abusing a 9-year-old boy while he was a visiting priest at a Freeport church in the late 1990s.
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Nuns in longtime Portland monastery moving out of Maine
The last 2 sisters at the Monastery of the Precious Blood on State Street will relocate next month to their religious order’s monastery in Manchester, N.H.
Maine public safety workers honored at Blue Mass in Lewiston basilica
The tradition was revived in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
New York AG issues subpoenas for every Catholic diocese in the state for sex abuse investigation
The New York Attorney General is pursuing a civil investigation into the Catholic Church’s response to reports of abuse.
‘Shame on you’: Man interrupts Washington archbishop at Mass
News outlets report cellphone video shows the interruption of Cardinal Donald Wuerl’s post-Communion remarks Sunday at Annunciation Catholic Church.