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...meet in June, their much anticipated national sex-abuse guidelines will doubtless feature review panels, led by laypeople, that already exist in many dioceses. Most Americans, underwhelmed by the clergy's self-policing, will welcome this. But the message sent by the troubled Stokes, who stands accused of attempted murder after confessing to shooting Blackwell three times, is this: If you do set up lay boards, for God's sake, listen to them. Clerics and laypeople alike are also praying that the shooting--along with the apparent suicide last week of the Rev. Alfred J. Bietighofer, a Bridgeport, Conn., priest...
...shot priest has been released from the hospital. Stokes is out of jail on $150,000 bail but faces charges not only of attempted murder but also of handgun violations. After the shooting, Cardinal Keeler described the situation as "exquisitely painful." Writing in the Baltimore Sun, he admitted that Blackwell was "credibly accused of abuse" in 1993, and "in light of what has occurred and what was revealed in 1998, I would not make the same decision today." On Friday he forced the retirement of a priest accused of molestation 20 years ago. One thing, however, stayed the same...
...home may think the outside world is dangerous (and the more they stay home, the more dangerous it will seem). Yet as soon as we travel, we are reminded that, for example, during the 1980s when war was tearing apart Beirut, San Salvador and Kabul, Washington had a higher murder rate than any of them. Last year, when I took my 70-year-old mother on holiday to Syria, she quickly saw that its people were much friendlier than the country's dictatorship suggested, that the roads were clean and that (for a visitor in any case) life...
...real puzzle is, Did Will Dormer (Al Pacino) also commit murder? That is to say, Did he, with malice aforethought, shoot his partner Hap (Martin Donovan), or was it an accident--a snap shot in the fog as they were stalking Finch near the scene of his crime...
...sibling may produce a dramatic twist in the murder trial of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel. So far, relative after relative has backed up Ethel Kennedy's nephew, who is on trial in Norwalk, Conn., for the 1975 murder of his teenage neighbor Martha Moxley. He has said he was nowhere near the murder scene - Moxley's home, across the street from the Skakels' in Greenwich - at 10 p.m. that Oct. 30, the time forensic experts estimate Moxley died. And last week Skakel's elder brother Rushton Jr. and cousin James Dowdle testified that the defendant left home...