Nation IN BRIEF : ILLINOIS : Bernardin, Under Oath, Denies Assault
Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago denied under oath that he sexually assaulted a former seminary student and asked a court for a quick disposition of the case. “I feel it is important to resolve this matter as quickly as possible,” the 65-year-old prelate said. Bernardin issued the statement as his lawyers filed a formal response to a suit in federal court in Cincinnati in which Steven Cook, 34, charged that the cardinal and an Ohio priest assaulted him in the mid-1970s while Bernardin was archbishop of Cincinnati.
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