A court in Buenos Aires yesterday
ordered the Catholic Church to pay US$50,000 to a former seminarian who
alleged he was sexually abused some 25 years ago by an Argentine
archbishop.
The breakthrough ruling is the first
civil court judgment against the majority Roman Catholic church in
Argentina, legal experts said. The court issued the judgment of 756,000
pesos against the church in the case of a theology student in the
province of Santa Fe, who claimed to have been victimised by late
Archbishop Edgardo Storni.