The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will pay nearly $10m to settle four clergy sex abuse cases.

THE Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles — America’s largest — released a detailed study yesterday on child sex abuse by its clergy since 1930, reporting the highest number of claims against a US diocese to date.

BOSTON Cardinal Bernard Law, head of the Roman Catholic archdiocese at the centre of a national child sex scandal afflicting the Church, faced a new round of questioning yesterday over his handling of priests accused of molesting children.