PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer
March 19, 2012|By John P. Martin, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia fought Monday to keep private 12 documents that could reveal how its lawyers advised church leaders to handle claims that priests were molesting children.
The records include correspondence between the lawyers and Msgr. William J. Lynn, the church official criminally charged over his alleged role in responding to abuse allegations in the 1990s. Most concern the “development of policy” by the archdiocese, its attorney, Robert Welsh, said during a Common Pleas Court hearing.
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