This article comes from the Associated Press.
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US Judge asks Vatican to serve court paper to pope
By Dinesh Ramde
MILWAUKEE —
A federal U.S. judge is asking the Vatican to cooperate in serving the pope and two other top officials with court papers that stem from decades-old allegations of priest sexual abuse in Wisconsin. The request is an incremental step in a lawsuit that accuses the officials of conspiring to keep the allegations against a Milwaukee priest quiet.
The Vatican is not obliged to cooperate with the request. A message left with the Vatican's U.S.-based attorney, Jeffrey Lena, was not immediately returned.
Plaintiffs' attorneys say the Vatican has not cooperated with similar requests in previous lawsuits.
