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...scandal that has already cost the Roman Catholic Church dearly in moral authority is beginning to take a serious economic toll. In a landmark agreement in Ireland last week, the church offered $110 million to compensate thousands of victims of sexual and physical abuse that occurred over several decades in church-run schools there. Meanwhile, a Tucson, Ariz., diocese settled for an undisclosed sum with former altar boys who said they were molested by their priest, a quiet deal that typifies how these cases are handled in the U.S. Less common is the very public court battle of John Geoghan...
...DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Show You're Sorry The government dismissed Belgium's apology for its role in the 1961 killing of Patrice Lumumba, postcolonial Congo's first Prime Minister, but demanded reparations. A Belgian parliamentary report found that the former colonial rulers bore "moral responsibility" for the assassination...
Reagan was unafraid to apply moral pressure on those nations that were stifling individual freedom, developing dangerous weapons and actively seeking to undermine democratic institutions. Consequently, when advisors and cabinet members urged him to eliminate the phrase “evil empire” from his now-famous speech, Reagan insisted that it remain...
Reagan’s speech shattered the illusions of moral relativists everywhere and highly embarrassed the Soviet government. It indicated that America would no longer make excuses for brutally despotic regimes that threatened our national security. As Noonan writes, “dictatorships cannot continue forever in an atmosphere of truth…[Reagan] refused to lie, and with his words the fall of the ugliest dictatorship in human history began...
...president’s moral clarity is refreshing and more than a little “Reaganesque.” Bush realizes that making demands of these malevolent regimes is not—to borrow a Reagan phrase—“cultural imperialism,” but rather an honest attempt to affect progressive change and protect the political institutions, infrastructure and people of the free world...