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...Taking the Sunday Collection Re the article about Roman Catholic clergy stealing from parishioners [Feb. 26]: You reported that, after the discovery of embezzlement, a bishop decreed biennial audits for every parish. That hardly inspires confidence. Anything short of an annual audit shouldn't be sanctioned. No publicly held company would be allowed that practice. Why should parishioners' gifts be treated any differently? Sounds like the same ol' cover-up to me. (The Rev.) Matthew Ernst Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina...
...missed the mark with the title "Pilfering Priests"-it should have been "Plundering Priests." My wife and I left the Roman Catholic Church after its hypocritical handling of the sexual-abuse scandals. We were tired of wondering to which lawsuits our contributions were being directed as a payout to another victim. Now it comes to light that priests, as you describe, are "living as hedonistically as Renaissance Popes" by stealing the contributions made by their hardworking parishioners. It makes one wonder when the leadership of the church will wake up and allow priests to marry, so they can enjoy life...
...schoolteacher, helped found the National Action Party (P.A.N.) in 1939, but the party was shut out of power by the dictatorial Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.), which ruled Mexico from 1929 until 2000. The elder Calderón left the P.A.N. in the 1980s because he felt it had abandoned its Roman Catholic ideals of social justice for a narrower pro-business ideology. Felipe was relatively obscure until 2005, when he upset the P.A.N.'s anointed candidate to win the party's 2006 presidential nomination. He later overcame a double-digit deficit to defeat López Obrador. "Calder?...
...Eduardo D'Aubuisson was the son of ARENA's founder, Roberto D'Aubuisson, who was accused of heading death squads during the 1980s civil war. The elder D'Aubuisson, who died in 1992, was found by a U.N.-backed truth commission to have ordered the 1980 assassination of Roman Catholic Archbishop Oscar Romero. His son and colleagues were murdered on the 15th anniversary of D'Aubuisson's death from throat cancer...
...20th century's great historical-Jesus experts. Reading him was no joyride. His footnotes seemed to have footnotes. But that was the point. His scholarship was such that even when one of his books called the virgin birth "unresolved," it got a go-ahead from his Roman Catholic Church...