Attorneys involved in a 2021 lawsuit against the Springfield Diocese over allegations of rape have signaled their intentions to settle the case short of a trial.
In a 48-page decision, Hampden Superior Court Judge Karen L. Goodwin found a longtime Springfield Catholic diocesan lawyer served as a disingenuous spin doctor to shield late Bishop Christopher Weldon from decades-old rape allegations.
The decision rejected a claim by the Springfield diocese that it was protected from a civil action brought by an altar boy who was raped by former bishop Christopher J.
A lawyer for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield asked the state s top court Monday to halt a civil lawsuit brought by the former Chicopee altar boy who suffered sexual
Lawyers for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield failed to persuade a Supreme Judicial Court justice to delay action on a lawsuit brought by a former altar boy sexually abused