While the other Father Murphy was in charge of abuse cases, she contends that the bishop, who was the chief deputy to Cardinal Bernard Law, also played a role.
In the latest case, which prompted the Massachusetts Legislature to begin action on the bill, a former priest, John Geoghan, is to be tried in September on charges of abusing 77 young people in five Boston-area parishes between 1968 and 1995.
The investigation may not result in Google facing charges of abusing its market power; a majority of the FTC commissioners decided only that there was enough evidence to launch a formal review.
Mr. Lena also said that the Vatican office in charge of handling abuse cases, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, had recommended laicization, which is removal from the priesthood.
This month, the Vatican published a letter from 1988 that it said showed that Benedict, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the head of the Vatican's doctrinal office in charge of handling abuse, had sought ways for swifter punishment for errant priests.
So the people in the new chain of command — including the controller of Radio Five Live, whom Mr. Entwistle had put in charge of child-abuse-related stories, and the director of BBC Northern Ireland, to whom the Radio Five controller was meant to report — apparently had little experience with how "Newsnight" worked.
Pope Benedict XVI appoints special envoy in charge of sexual abuse allegations.
After spending five months in jail awaiting trial on charges of abusing his position while minister of national security, the case against him was dismissed in August for lack of evidence.
That put him in charge of adjudicating sexual abuse cases involving priests worldwide, as Benedict had been before him.
Charles J. Scicluna, the Vatican's internal prosecutor in charge of handling sexual abuse cases, explained the change on women's ordination in technical terms.
