US Federal court: Vatican can be sued for sex abuse by priests

''A US appeals court has ruled that the Vatican can be sued for the sex abuse committed by US priests.

The Vatican had tried to block a class action lawsuit alleging that it orchestrated a cover-up of sexual abuse by clergy with the argument that it was protected by laws granting sovereign states immunity from most US civil proceedings.....

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A federal appeals court ruled that the case brought by three Kentucky men can proceed because exceptions in the law allow the Vatican to be held liable for the actions of church employees acting within the scope of their employment in the United States.

"The portions of plaintiffs' claims that are based upon the conduct of bishops, archbishops and Holy See personnel while supervising allegedly abusive clergy satisfy all four requirements of the tortious act exception," Circuit Judge Julia Smith Gibbons wrote in a 20-page ruling Monday.

The Vatican cannot, however, be held liable for the actual abuse because these acts "were not done while... acting within the scope of their employment," Gibbons wrote.''

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