Word: resignations
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...will not address big reforms while the crisis is boiling. That is a reassuring tradition for the two American Cardinals most implicated in the scandals, Boston's Bernard Law and New York's Egan. But plenty of influential Catholics are suggesting that the U.S. church would benefit from penitential resignations at the top. Says an editorial in the upcoming issue of the national Roman Catholic weekly America: "If early on some bishops had been willing to claim full responsibility and resign, victims, parishes, the media and juries might have been less inclined to vent their anger on the church...
...Cardinal Law might resign tomorrow, and we don’t know who we’re going to get,” Coyne said...
...that he is only doing so in a desperate attempt to save his own career. Such apparent callousness has no place in a religious order, let alone in its senior clergy. Law now finds himself significantly weakened not only in political support but also in moral authority; he should resign immediately for the sake of the Church he professes to love...
Current Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles plans to step down July 1, and Pedersen will resign at the end of the academic year before going on academic leave...
Goodwin’s plagiarism of sentences, nearly verbatim, from source materials is inexcusable. As an Overseer, Goodwin is a leader of an academic community, the foundation of which is integrity in independent scholarship. As a leader, she should recognize that her action is unbecoming an Overseer and resign her post immediately, sending the clear message to the campus that she understands the gravity of the offense she has committed...