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Since the mid-1980s, Roman Catholic dioceses in most American states have coped with criminal cases, lawsuits and ugly rumors concerning priests and the sexual abuse of underage boys. Angry churchgoers say that bishops often covered up the scandals, shuttling wrongdoers to new parishes, where they preyed again. Now, on...
First, a committee of experts reviewed all allegations made in the Chicago archdiocese over the past three decades, concluding privately that 39 men no longer in the active priesthood (1.7% of the total clergy) were molesters, while 14 others showed "immature behavior" that was not serious. Second, the committee fashioned...
Oddly enough, at some points Gates offers his own "traditional" justification for all this--from the writings of Cardinal Newman to the "age-old ideal" of mathesis universalis to simple "common sense" (which is used by the right to defend the Anglo-American canon "common sense," for example, might say...
Ashe acquiesced to the inevitable. He made the TV rounds in the days after his AIDS announcement, and he kept his dignity -- not easy in an exercise in which the line between richly cartooned gossip and basic responsible journalism (who-what-when-where-how) all but dissolves. Television has a...
The Vatican appointed the Rev. John P. Boles to the prestigious post in a decision announced this week by Cardinal Bernard F. Law '53.