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...James A. Rector said that in addition to the exam at the Kennedy School, the NYPD tabled in Boston area subway and bus stops, malls and other schools, including the University of Massachusetts Boston campus over the course of the past week...
...show that the problem is more widespread. In February, the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita published a story alleging that the Archbishop of Poznan, Father Juliusz Paetz, made a habit of sexually assaulting young clerics from the local seminary. According to the report, Paetz's behavior became so notorious that the rector of the seminary, Father Tadeusz Karkosz, forbade the archbishop to visit the college...
...When Doe got to St. Thomas, the man he found who was most like that priest was Father Anthony O'Connell - whom the students called simply "O'C" - the seminary's co-founder and rector, who became Doe's spiritual counselor as well as his English grammar teacher. O'Connell, then 44, was a burly, 5'11", 250-lb Irishman who had come to this country in the 1960s and had set out to create a model seminary. What Doe alleges O'Connell left behind instead was a pattern of sexually abusing the boys in his charge - and a swath...
...Brenda G. Husson, the rector at St. James’ Church, which Pusey attended regularly, delivered a homily praising Pusey’s “remarkable presence” and his “extraordinary relationship” with his wife, Anne. She also noted his dedication to Harvard and his commitment to the things he loved...
...John Ohmer knew the parents in his congregation wanted help weaning themselves from the habit of overindulging their children. But as a father of three who has to ration Nintendo in his own home, Ohmer, rector of St. James Episcopal Church in Leesburg, Va., also knew it wasn't as simple as just telling families to buy less. So he revved up what he calls an "underground Christian resistance movement" for parents, offering parish workshops that urged them to make an inventory of their lives and holidays and then imagine the ideal version. Their dreams, it turned out, entailed...