21.   As Clark spoke Sunday, priests throughout the archdiocese read parishioners a letter from Egan apologizing for any mishandling of sex abuse cases involving priests.

22.   Authorities had no comment on the motive, including whether it was related to the recent sex abuse scandal involving Catholic priests.

23.   But with reports of pedophilia involving priests rocking the church in various parts of the world, Pope John Paul II has begun to raise his voice.

24.   He has been criticized for his handling of cases of sexual abuse involving priests during his Bridgeport tenure.

25.   Last week, John Paul broke his silence on the sexual abuse scandals involving priests that have rocked dioceses in the United States and elsewhere.

26.   Nationally, the Catholic Church has spent millions over the past decade to settle sexual abuse cases involving its priests.

27.   One involved a priest whose case of extreme exhaustion was cured after nuns prayed to Venegas.

28.   The cases predate the current sexual abuse controversy involving Roman Catholic priests in the United States.

29.   The settlement would be one of the biggest ever reached by the Roman Catholic Church in a U.S. child-molestation case involving a priest.

30.   There have been several high-profile sex abuse scandal involving priests around the United States in the last decade or so.