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IN BRIEF
Seattle Archdiocese
removed from lawsuit
SEATTLE — The Seattle Archdio
cese has been removed as a defen
dant in a lawsuit filed by an Idaho
man who accused now-defrocked
priest John Cornelius of molesting
him years ago.
On Friday, Judge Paris Kallas said
the Seattle Archdiocese of the Roman
Catholic Church and the Sulpicians,
the Catholic religious order that ran
St. Thomas Seminary, should not be
part of Timothy McKenna’s suit.
The lawsuit filed last year by the
Idaho Falls man said Cornelius mo
lested him when Cornelius was a stu
dent at Mount Angel Seminary near
Portland, when he was a priest-in
training at St. Thomas seminary in
Kenmore, and when he was a priest
with the Seattle Archdiocese.
McKenna accused Cornelius of
abusing him from about 1969 to 1975,
when McKenna was about 10 to 16.
Cornelius, who was permanently
dismissed from the priesthood in Sep
tember 2004, also diverted thousands
of dollars of church money for per
sonal expenses — in some cases
showering his alleged victims with
cash, gifts and vacations — according
to a Seattle Archdiocese investiga
tion. The archdiocese said Cornelius
paid the money back.
Brad Moore, McKenna’s attorney,
said the judge decided the archdio
cese and the Sulpicians shouldn’t be
part of the suit because McKenna
was not in the protective custody of
the church at the times of the abuse,
and, given that Cornelius was a fami
ly friend, the abuse would have hap
pened whether the church made Cor
nelius a priest or not.
The abuse of McKenna would
have stopped “if the Seattle Archdio
cese said this guy is no longer eligible
to be a priest and doesn’t have the
power of the church behind him,”
said Moore, who contends the
church overlooked a number of red
flags throughout the years.
Moore said he planned to appeal
Friday’s decision. He and McKenna
are still deciding whether to proceed
with the suit, with Cornelius as the
sole defendant.
— The Associated Press
Research: Coffee's effects
need farther investigation
Continued from page 7
studies have suggested that caffeine
aggravates symptoms of menopause
or intensifies the side effects of some
antibiotics. Heavy caffeine use has
been linked to miscarriage. But stud
ies have also shown that a skin
cream spiked with caffeine lowers
the risk of skin cancer in mice.
“It’s an excellent, interesting and
provocative study, and their conclu
sions seem justified,” said Dr. R.
Palmer Beasley of the University of
Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
in Houston.
“It will provoke a lot of new work
here,” said Beasley, who was not
part of the research group.
While the study found a statisti
cally significant relationship
between drinking coffee and having
less liver cancer, the authors
note it needs to be repeated in
other groups.
And the reason for the reduction
remains unclear.
However, Inoue’s team noted that
coffee contains large amounts of an
tioxidants, and several animal stud
ies have indicated those compounds
have the potential to inhibit cancer
in the liver.
In their study, the team also
looked at green tea, which contains
different antioxidants, and they
found no association between drink
ing the tea and liver cancer rates.
“Other unidentified substances
may also be responsible” for the re
duction in cancers, they said.
A separate study reported in the
same issue of the journal reported
no relationship between drinking
caffeinated coffee or tea and the
rates of colon or rectal cancer.
However, that analysis did
find a 52 percent decline in rectal
cancer among people who regularly
drank two or more cups of
decaffeinated coffee.
In that study, a team led by Karin
A cup a day
A 10-year health study in Japan
of more than 90,000 people
suggests that people who drink
coffee daily have half the risk of
getting liver cancer as those who
who never drank coffee.
Liver cancer cases per
100,000 people
214.6
Daily or almost daily
coffee drinkers
People who never
drink coffee
2004 U.S. liver cancer cases
14,270 deaths 18,920
SOURCES: National Cancer Institute; AP
American Cancer Society
B. Michels of Brigham and Women’s
Hospital in Boston analyzed data
from two large studies — the Nurses’
Health Study of women and the
Health Professionals’ Follow-Up
Study involving men. The analysis of
nearly 2 million person years found
1,438 cases of colorectal cancer.
While they did not find any asso
ciation between cancer rates and
consumption of caffeinated coffee or
tea, people who regularly drank two
or more cups per day of decaffeinat
ed coffee had about half the inci
dence of rectal cancer as those who
never drank decaf.
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