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...positive steps have been taken on the long road to eradicating pedophilia in the Church. A commission has been created, consisting of the district attorney and a variety of child psychologists, to submit recommendations to the chancery on how to deal with future allegations of abuse. Further substantive supervision—by the state as well as the Catholic Church—will help to reduce threats to children. All such measures are worthy of support, as no cause is more important than the protection of children from sinister pedophiles. Meanwhile, any priests who feel content to ignore both...
...trying to save his a__," the Rev. D. George Spagnolia told me. He was speaking of Bernard Cardinal Law and the Boston prelate's crackdown on priests who stand accused of child abuse. Cardinal Law had turned over 90 names of area clerics to the district attorney's office; 10 of the clerics were still active in the priesthood but were quickly put on administrative leave. Father Spagnolia, the 10th to be suspended, had become the first to proclaim his innocence, loudly, insisting that he would fight the charges "all the way to Rome...
...Laurent's social aid and detox clinics show that the district and drugs are no strangers. But for everyone, the place has been getting scary. "Day and night the dealers were out on the streets in force, fighting with each other for turf and customers, being aggressive to passers-by," says Jean-Pierre Clavien, a local shopkeeper. "They created fear and insecurity in the neighborhood." Last week all that aggression culminated in the death of one dealer - an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone - who was stabbed in the liver, apparently after giving chase to a buyer...
...Middlesex County District Attorney’s office was unable to provide further details of Carter and Connelly’s future court date...
...hopes of getting that order blocked. But it turns out that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia handles emergency appeals from Mississippi, which is convenient for the Republicans. Scalia personally swore in Chip Pickering as a congressman in 1997 and is a friend of the congressman's father, U.S. District Court Judge Charles Pickering, whose nomination to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals is snarled in the Senate. Democrats again cried foul and tried, unsuccessfully, to get another Supreme Court Justice to block the federal judges' plan. The Dems are now trying to convince the full court to overrule Scalia. Count...