Edition: U.S. / Global  Price of Broken Vows of Silence
Published: May 26, 2002   Legal experts say the archbishop is
entitled to get his money back. Yet as a practical matter, they
say, that will never happen.  Lawyers on both sides of clergy
sexual abuse cases estimate that about two dozen people have
spoken to the press in the face of confidentiality agreements.
Yet no one, they agree, has been sued.  ''I have counseled over
a dozen people who decided to speak out after signing a
confidentiality agreement,'' said Jeffrey R. Anderson, a lawyer
in St. Paul who represents victims of sexual abuse by the
clergy, ''and yet not one has had any action taken against
them.''  There is little question that churches could win
lawsuits against people like Mr. Marcoux.  ''This is a terrible
breach,'' Lester A. Pines, a lawyer in Madison, Wis., said of
Mr. Marcoux's television interview. Mr. Pines, who reviewed the
settlement agreement between the archbishop and Mr. Marcoux at a
reporter's request, said, ''It's a very g