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...read the sentence twice to make sure I wasn't imagining it. In the text of the American Cardinals' statement issued last week in Rome, the hierarchs specified which statutory rapists among their clergy would be subject to being defrocked. Such a punishment would be meted out to "a priest who has become notorious and is guilty of the serial, predatory, sexual abuse of minors." Excuse me? Why on earth is the "notoriety" of a child abuser in any way relevant to punishment for his crime (except as an excuse for the church to avoid sifting through past allegations that...
Little moments and anecdotes interspersed throughout contribute realism to the overarching theme. One of the novel’s memorable tableaus occurs on a trip to church, where everything manages to go wrong and yet be beautifully right. The priest delivers an archaic sermon filled with melodramatic images of good versus evil, when the altar boy accidentally steps in front of three powerful electric fans, sending the Communion wafers in his hands flying. As Hank recounts: “Poor old Harvey! Good old Mr. Finks! In St. George’s Church, Garrison Road, Owings Mills, Maryland that Sunday...
Anti-Pop are hip hop’s Autechre, sounding far-out on first listen but making perfect sense on the fifth (appropriately, they’re also on the UK’s experimental Warp label). As former slam poets, emcees Priest, Beans and M. Sayyid rhyme multisyllables like androids possessed by funk, their unfathomable words sounding vaguely familiar at times—like lyrics about hip hop lyrics. They attack the mic with a coordinated fervor not seen since early Wu-Tang or Souls of Mischief, or even the Beastie Boys...
...bishops, Gregory will be forced to confront issues never before raised in the Church. He's accustomed to a pioneering role; Gregory is the first African American ever elected to lead the conference of bishops, and previously served as the group's vice president. Gregory was ordained as a priest in 1973, in Chicago's archdiocese...
...definitive guidelines falls into the hands of Bishop Gregory. Not that he is without his own misgivings about a ruling that would permit known offenders to return to work. "We bishops clearly need to discuss among ourselves and with our people the question of any ministerial posts for a priest - even with limited abusive history in the past - who has received treatment and is receiving ongoing care and monitoring," Gregory told reporters this week...