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...away from them. But his church abides and the victims are aware that it participated in a vast cover-up, not merely of O?Grady?s crimes, but of other pedophile priests? abuses as well. Their particular target is Cardinal Roger Mahoney, who is the Archbishop of Los Angeles, but was earlier the bishop of Stockton, Calif., in whose diocese O?Grady worked. They have powerful evidence that whenever complaints about O?Grady?s crimes were brought to his attention Mahoney simply transferred him to another parish, making no attempt to sequester him or to find any meaningful therapy...
...permission, or "indult," would most immediately address a longstanding schism with the ultra-traditionalist group founded in 1969 by the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who opposed the Vatican II reforms. Lefebvre was excommunicated in 1988 after he consecrated four bishops without Rome's consent. But Benedict is believed to want to bring the Lefebvrites back in the fold...
...appearance kicked off the second annual lecture series sponsored by the St. Paul’s Lay Committee on Contemporary Spiritual-and-Public Concerns. The series will bring 15 speakers to the church, just steps away from Quincy and Adams Houses. The archbishop of Boston, Seán Patrick Cardinal O’Malley, began the event with a prayer...
...small study groups, the IOP is also home to the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum, one of the world’s premiere venues for public servants to speak. Hundreds of heads of state, legislators, social entrepreneurs, and thinkers have addressed the forum, from Senator Hillary R. Clinton to Archbishop Desmund Tutu to Justice Antonin Scalia. These study groups and speakers encourage students to become active participants in the political process by giving students the option to question the powers that...
...Timed together with Sodano's retirement comes the end of the Curia career for the governor of Vatican City, U.S. Cardinal Edmund Szoka, who will be replaced on Friday by Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, currently the Holy See foreign minister. This will leave the job of top foreign affairs official vacant. Among the names circulating are two linked to France: Italian-born Archbishop Fortunato Baldelli, who is currently nuncio (ambassador) in France, and Archbishop Christophe Pierre, 60, currently the nuncio in Uganda. Some observers say that Benedict still needs to find his voice on world affairs, and a forceful player...