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...that isn’t being addressed by reluctant acts of compensation by the Church. The frustration felt in parishes—not only in Massachusetts and Kentucky but all over America—is reaching a boiling point. The Church seems to think that the resignation of Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53 and the $10 million settlement of a lawsuit paid out to victims of abuse in Massachusetts dioceses is the end of the scandal, but justice still hasn’t been served...
...Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. The cashier had not deactivated its anti-theft insert, but I couldn't help wondering if the book was screeching at being trapped in the same bag with liberal-bias critic Bernard Goldberg's best seller Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite. (One Franken chapter is titled "I Bitch-Slap Bernie Goldberg.") "Let me desensitize Mr. Franken for you," the guard said...
...BOOKS Enron's Ken Lay, who last week agreed to hand over records to the SEC, and Jeffrey Skilling are poster boys for business-accounting scandals, but they have not been charged. (Other Enron executives have been.) HealthSouth's Richard Scrushy was accused of inflating earnings, while WorldCom's Bernard Ebbers faces securities-fraud charges in Oklahoma. Both men have pleaded not guilty...
...before he died. "It confirmed the suffering that I knew about," he says. He has received thousands of letters, all supportive, he says. Public pressure to implement some kind of reform in Humbert's name is strong, but Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin opposes creating a new law. Bernard Kouchner, former French Minister of Health and founder of Doctors Without Borders, has even suggested erecting a statue in honor of Marie Humbert. Perhaps the plaque could quote Vincent: "Do not judge her; what she will have done for me is probably the most beautiful evidence of love in the world...
...lawsuits for control of church assets, including real estate and pension funds. Legal fees alone could impoverish both sides. Liberals also warn that Third World churches risk cutting off the channels of funding from the West. The insurgents are ready to take the risk. "This is simony," says Bernard Malango, the primate of Central Africa. "Let the powerful people keep their money." He and other conservative primates told time that the moral cost of communion with an unrepentant ECUSA was higher. "We have lost our credibility," says Tanzania's Mtetemela. "How can we draw people to the faith of Jesus...