Legal reckoning: New abuse suits could cost church over $4B

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

NEW YORK -- At the end of another long day trying to sign up new clients accusing the Roman Catholic Church of sexual abuse, lawyer Adam Slater gazed out the window of his high-rise Manhattan office at one of the great symbols of the church, St. Patrick's Cathedral.

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