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...gathering campaign against the Ahmadiyah, however, has prompted fears of similar intimidation among other minority groups. "When one group threatens to kill another, that should be grounds enough to take action, but that hasn't happened," said Franz Magnis-Suseno, a Jesuit priest. "If these attacks have been allowed then there could be more if the group is banned outright...
...Then, the movement received a monstrous reprieve. The priest sex abuse scandal implicated not only the predators, but the superiors who shielded them. John Paul remained mostly silent. A new reform group, Voice of the Faithful, arose; the old anger returned, crystallizing around the battle-cry "They just...
...young Polish priest named Karol Wojtyla made the pilgrimage to a small town in Puglia to have his confession heard by Padre Pio, the mysterious Italian monk with the Christ-like stigmata wounds on his hands. It was that encounter - along with Wojtyla's belief that a prayer by the Capuchin monk had cured a friend's cancer in 1962 - that helps explain why Padre Pio was fast-tracked for sainthood once Wojtyla had risen to the papacy as John Paul II. But some may now wonder if the current Pope, the cerebral and professorial Benedict XVI, has the same...
...make, they are wildly popular across the globe, being translated into over 50 languages from Russian to Indonesian. Teaming up with Mexican production company Argos, HBO brought in top cinema talent such as Carlos Carrera, director of the controversial hit film The Crime of Father Amaro, about a priest's affair with a teenage girl. It also persuaded Mexican authorities to let it work with dozens of real-life female prisoners, who play extras in Capadocia. The scarred and hardened faces of these women prisoners adds to the realism to the portrayal of violence and intimidation behind bars...
...most egregious sex abuse cases), we asked whether the Vatican intended to deal with the one part of the sex scandal that seems outstanding: beyond attending to victims and taking abusers out of commission, would the Vatican sanction any supervisors and bishops who "aided and abetted" the priest-predators...