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...number of specific reforms, if immediately adopted, could reduce the ability of priests to engage in sexual abuse and of bishops to conceal these crimes. First, the Church must reaffirm its commitment to treating cases of sexual abuse as open civil matters rather than concealed ecclesiastical ones. For example, one of the reports in Ireland noted the Church hierarchy’s systematic failure to inform local authorities of felonies committed by priests. Priests need to be made aware of the appropriate means of reporting crimes to civil enforcement officials and mandated to do so in many cases. The obligations...
Today, that figure is 45 percent. The academy’s doors are being thrown open as never before to diverse populations of aspiring scholars...
Benzan, a Cambridge lawyer who ran for the Mass. House of Representatives in 1996 and 1998, said that the open State Senate seat gave him the opportunity he had been seeking to jump back into politics...
...certainly didn’t expect there to be an open seat,” he said. “I was planning to run against the Senator in the September primary...
...question of whether Garzón willfully ignored the amnesty law when he declared jurisdiction in the case is open to debate. "Numerous sources of international law suggest that amnesties for crimes against humanity are inconsistent with a State's obligations to protect human rights, including the right of access to justice," Carolyn Lamm, president of the American Bar Association, wrote in a public letter to Spain's Attorney General, an opponent of the prosecution. "It is difficult in light of these principles to view [Garzón's] ruling as legally indefensible, or as warranting criminal prosecution." Garz...