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...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...
...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...
...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 priests, as you describe, are "living as hedonistically as Renaissance Popes" by stealing from the contributions made by their parishioners. When will the church wake up and allow priests to marry, so they can enjoy life with a companion as God and nature intend...
...Wilson’s decision came much more quickly—she knew she wanted to join after attending only one meeting of Harvard’s Baha’i group. Wilson, whose family is Roman Catholic, first came into contact with the Baha’i Association through the Inter-Faith Council (IFC). “I joined IFC as soon as I came here on campus, and through IFC I met some people on Baha’i” she says. “None of it didn’t attract me...it?...