BC-Tuesday Spotlight, ADVISORY

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The following story will move Monday as this week's Tuesday Spotlight, a feature showcasing the best off-the-news enterprise in the AP report:

VATICAN-LEGION OF CHRIST

MILAN — Five suspects are scheduled to be tried next month in the latest case against the disgraced Legion of Christ religious order. They're charged with trying to obstruct justice and to extort the family of a young man who was molested by a priest when he was 12. As part of the scheme, the accused offered the family 15,000 euros if he would tell authorities that the abuse never happened. The cardinal who was sent by the order to clean up the Legion told the boy's mother that the settlement offer was just the way it's “done in Italy.” By Nicole Winfield and Maria Verza. UPCOMING: 2,500 words, photos, 1,200-word abridged version.

The AP