list included diagnosed pedophiles and priests who remained in active ministry despite admitting to or being accused of abusing minors. It was locked away in the archdiocese's Center City offices for 18 years, through two grand jury investigations and countless requests for it, until Coyne said he found it in a file given to him by a church official six years ago.
But even that is disputed.
Minutes after the lawyer testified, Bishop Timothy Senior, a top archdiocesan administrator, took the stand and denied seeing the file with the list or giving either to Coyne for safekeeping in 2006.
unexpected testimony from two prominent insiders added to the portrait of a church hierarchy rife with secrets, lies and dysfunction that both prosecutors and defense lawyers for Msgr. William J. Lynn could use to make their cases.
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