New documents released in the case of a Wisconsin priest accused of molesting boys at a school for the deaf show the Vatican was alerted earlier than previously thought.
A letter released Thursday by the attorney in a lawsuit against the Vatican shows that one of the alleged victims wrote to a Vatican official in 1995.
That was two years before the Vatican green-lighted a secret canonical trial against the Rev. Lawrence Murphy. Previously, it was thought the Vatican first learned of the allegations in a 1996 letter from the Milwaukee archbishop....