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    Chicago priest benched again amid another decades-old sexual abuse claim

    by Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune Oct 16, 2022 3 minutes
    Michael Pfleger, center, closes his eyes in prayer before speaking at a news conference outside St. Sabina Parish in Chicago on May 24, 2021, after an independent review board determined there was insufficient reason to suspect he was guilty of allegations of abuse that had been leveled against him.

    CHICAGO — For the second time in less than two years, the Rev. Michael Pfleger is stepping away from his popular ministry while under investigation for a decades-old sexual abuse allegation, the Archdiocese of Chicago confirmed Saturday.

    In the latest allegation, a man in his late 40s has filed a claim with the archdiocese alleging the long-tenured activist South Side priest sexually abused him at St. Sabina Church in the late 1980s.

    The man’s attorney, Eugene Hollander, said his client was a member of the acclaimed Soul Children of Chicago choir when the alleged

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