Word: pedophilia
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...Internet. Actually, Townshend insists that he can explain. One of rock's great human conundrums--aggressive softy, poetic guitar buster--Townshend has admitted that he once used his credit card to enter a child-porn site. But he maintains that he went there only because he is researching pedophilia for his autobiography, a book that he says will deal with his suspicion that he was molested in early childhood...
...truculent Catholic. He scorns the Second Vatican Council, which in the 1960s replaced the Latin Mass with the liturgy in the language of the people and lots of perky folk songs. To Gibson, Vatican II "corrupted the institution of the church. Look at the main fruits: dwindling numbers and pedophilia." He might also have noted that Catholicism flourished in those countries where it became a church of liberation--where priests welded traditional doctrine to radical social reform...
...Catholic news wire that the U.S. sex-abuse scandal was an "intentional, manipulated...desire to discredit the church" by the media. The conservative Ratzinger offered a virtual Vatican seal of approval for recent comments by two Latin American Cardinals--each considered possible papal successors--who also blamed the pedophilia crisis on the American press. Another sign of a hardening line in Rome came in a letter from Jorge Arturo Cardinal Medina Estevez published in a Vatican magazine last week. A growing number of officials in Rome have become convinced that the cause of the U.S. crisis is the prevalence...
...from?" In part from textbook National Front bigotry and fear tactics. During campaigning for the Gardois seat covering Saint-Gilles and Beaucaire last week, National Front candidate and Vauvert native Florence Berthezène handed out leaflets decrying "lynchings, rapes, theft of all kinds ... racketeering, drug dealing, prostitution [and] pedophilia." But the police official notes, "The last killing anyone recalls in Vauvert was of an Arab youth." Be that as it may, the French feel vulnerable - and want action. "Crime and feelings of insecurity are directly linked to immigration," Berthezène growls. "Immigrants who are here illegally...
Thank you for the very first balanced and intelligent article on pedophilia I have read [SOCIETY, April 29]. Once we realize that it is a human problem and not just one for the Roman Catholic Church, we will be able to make progress in dealing with it. In the past, a calm, investigative approach has usually led to solutions to problems facing our society, and that method should work again with this one. (THE REV.) WILLIAM D. TURNBULL Stillwater...