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...courtyard of Yasser Arafat's battered Ramallah compound, a few hundred Palestinians newly released from Israel's jails gathered last Thursday lunchtime with their families. The Palestinian leader emerged smiling from a meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to greet the crowds. Arafat puckered his lips and blew kisses, no doubt expecting the kind of drawn-out session of mass adulation he relishes. But the prisoners knew whom to thank for their freedom. "Long live Hizballah!" they chanted. "Long live Hassan Nasrallah!" The name of the Lebanese Muslim fundamentalist militia leader wiped the smile off Arafat's lips...
...actual historical incident. Around 1594, a young woman of mysterious origins named Nicole Tavernier arrived in Paris and rapidly acquired a reputation for extraordinary faith and mystical healing powers. In a matter of weeks she had been taken up by the aristocracy, enjoyed an audience with the archbishop and organized a grand religious procession through the city...
Last Sunday, McShea said, she heard her pastor speak about a letter the archbishop wrote asking Christians to lobby against the court decision...
Even those charged with being the moral vanguards of society must pay monetary damages for misbehavior. In this vein, Archbishop Sean O’Malley and the Archdiocese of Boston are rightfully selling part of the archdiocese’s Brighton campus and the former Residence of the Archbishop to pay the $85 million settlement it is facing due to the pedophilic abuses of its priests. While this action only monetarily repays the hundreds of men whose innocence was destroyed by unfaithful priests, it is at least a small step toward healing the wounded trust between the archbishop...
...going to have to make more of an effort to make sure that these offenders are prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The Church cannot simply throw money at the victims as they’ve been doing, and Law’s well-chosen replacement, Archbishop Sean Patrick O’Malley, cannot simply shake a lot of hands and be sympathetic. They have skipped a step. If the Church hopes to again forge the bonds of trust for people who feel genuinely betrayed by what is literally the most sacred part of their lives, it must...