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Stika lawsuit: What's next for the Knoxville diocese?

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JD Flynn
Feb 23, 2022
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Sacred Heart Cathedral (Knoxville, TN) - exterior.jpg
The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Knoxville, Tennessee. Credit: Nheyob/wikimedia. CC BY SA 4.0

A lawsuit filed Tuesday against Bishop Rick Stika and the Knoxville, Tennessee, diocese provides new details about allegations of both diocesan cover-up and a sexual assault committed by a former diocesan seminarian who remains close to the bishop. 

Both the al…

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