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Judge Weighs Release of Church Abuse Files

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A Los Angeles judge will consider the fate of several bankers' boxes filled with the confidential personnel files of Roman Catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children. The files are supposed to be released as part of a multi-million-dollar settlement between the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and 562 people who alleged they were molested. But there's a dispute over how much of the information in those files should be public.

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