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...effort. Instead he's leaning on wealthy donors to float a special $25 million sex-abuse fund, looking at well-to-do lay fraternities like the Knights of Columbus for loans, and itemizing the properties in the church's rich portfolio that he can sell. Topping the list: the Archbishop's elegant residence. But press reports suggest the Boston church has been steadily selling off chunks of its stocks and bonds during the past five years to offset shortfalls in its operating expenses--the same period during which the diocese was making hefty secret payments to abuse victims...
...Talmadge gradually reversed his opposition to the ruling, and was named Man of the Year by Morris Brown College, a predominantly black institution, in 1975. Talmadge later served on the Watergate investigative committee, only to be ousted from the Senate for misusing campaign funds. KILLED. ISAIAS DUARTE CANCINO 63, archbishop of Colombia, who was an inspiration to citizens mired in a brutal 38-year war between leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary groups that has killed 40,000 in the last decade, by two gunmen outside a church; in Cali. Working from the birthplace of Colombia's most powerful cocaine...
...question also arose whether Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53, the archbishop of Boston accused of improperly dealing with accusations of sexual abuse by clergy, should resign—an option that Coyne firmly rejected because of the uncertainty it would engender...
...that the settlement—which may total up to $30 million—may at last bring closure to the embarrassing affair. A meaningful resolution for the victims of these appalling crimes will only come with the removal of Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53 as archbishop of greater Boston...
Certainly, no one would argue that Law is solely to blame for the scandal that is engulfing the Catholic Church nationwide. Nevertheless, as archbishop of Boston, he must accept his share of the responsibility for the inappropriate way the Church handled the situation locally. Psychiatrists may well have given misleading advice when they claimed that Geoghan was unlikely to repeat his offenses, but the ultimate decision to reassign Geoghan to areas where he would come into contact with children was Law?...