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Sullivan told an audience of Harvard students last night that he was concerned about inequity between towns, as he said he knew that Harvard’s Payment in Lieu of Tax (PILOT) to Watertown would total an excess of $3 million dollars—while Cambridge currently receives nearly $1.6 million in PILOT...
...Cambridge politicians said they were less than pleased with the news that Watertown could be getting more than Cambridge gets from Harvard in PILOT...
Stone said the University would gladly open discussion with Cambridge about their PILOT...
...bleeding, a hemorrhage of credibility--yet, in the face of all that, a squirming official attitude mixing anguish and evasion. At least Jimmy Swaggart had the good grace to bawl on television and beat his breast and otherwise oblige the audience with the theatrics of repentance. Last week the Pilot, the newspaper of the archdiocese of Boston, did ask several questions that it admitted are "out there in the minds of Catholics"--an interesting phrase, by the way, that suggests some of the problem: a hierarchy that sees "the Catholic mind" as something "out there" and the embattled clergy...
...There's no panacea, as the Pilot said. Catholics have to think through strong arguments for and against celibacy--and for and against the ordination of women as priests. But the current debacle will be compounded if the debate becomes a merely technical discussion of fixes and ignores the overall danger to the church. A Catholic Church that is losing so much ground around the world (to evangelical Protestants in Latin America, Africa and Asia, for example) and has such difficulty in recruiting new priests cannot afford the caviling, obdurate smugness of centuries past. Allowing priests to marry, and ordaining...