Word: bishoping
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...year-old Sister Anoopa Mary had been found hanging in her room in St. Mary's Convent in Kollam, north of the capital. In what was purportedly her suicide note, she had said she could no longer withstand the senior nuns' harassment. Her father, a cook in the local bishop's house, charged that sexual exploitation had led his daughter to take her life. The convent has denied the allegations, though a court investigation is still ongoing...
...Williamson, Bishop Richard • apology for saying there were no gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps - though not for believing it - is finally offered...
...Argentina A Bishop Gets Booted A formerly excommunicated Roman Catholic bishop has been expelled from Argentina after publicly questioning accepted facts of the Holocaust and declining to recant without "proof" that the Nazis executed millions of Jews in gas chambers. Bishop Richard Williamson, a member of an ultraconservative sect, returned to his native Britain, but not before scuffling with a reporter at a Buenos Aires airport. He still faces investigation in Germany, where Holocaust denial is a crime...
...Named auxiliary bishop of St. Louis in 2001 after another priest, former Archbishop Rembert Weakland, resigned after acknowledging that the archdiocese paid a $450,000 out-of-court settlement to a man who claimed Weakland had sexually assaulted...
...vespers when he was installed, and there's a party where the bishop knocks on the door. Most do it timidly - tap, tap. Not him - bang, bang! It echoed through the cathedral and let everyone know that Timothy Dolan was there." - The Rev. Steven M. Avella, a history professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee New York Times...