"Back when Jeff started in the '80s, he was footing the bill. People were saying, 'The Catholic Church, you're not going to get anything from them,'" says Finnegan, a lifelong Catholic.

St. Paul attorney Jeff Anderson has donated $2 million to the Mitchell Hamline School of Law to create the "Zero Abuse Project" to help improve the way lawyers and others respond to child abuse.

After 27 years of looking for alternative legal avenues, it seems the St. Paul lawyer has found a couple of chinks in the wall. The result this week: controversial documents involving Pope Benedict.