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A defrocked priest who once led fundraising for the Archdiocese of New York has filed a libel lawsuit against the church.
Charles Kavanagh was dismissed by the Vatican in 2010 after a church court found him guilty of sexually abusing a minor.
The accuser, now a middle-aged man, claimed Kavanagh touched him inappropriately during a trip to Washington in the 1980s but now admits he lied.
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