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...flood of reports could almost make you think that everyone who sexually abuses a child is a Roman Catholic priest. In fact, the perpetrators are a disturbingly diverse lot. There's the Chicago-area nurse who molested up to 18 patients, including a 9-year-old girl who had suffered a brain aneurysm and later died. There's the 33-year-old Nevada day-care worker who committed hundreds of sexual acts on at least nine children, mostly ages 2 and 3--and videotaped them. Some of the most heartbreaking allegations involve the American Boychoir School, a top choral program...
...institutions prize symbolism as much as the Roman Catholic Church does. And over the past few months, as news surfaced about the sexual abuse of children and teens by priests from Boston to Los Angeles and evidence of official cover-ups grew, American Catholics looked to the Vatican for some kind of sign. The silence out of Rome was deafening until last Monday, when the Pope finally issued a call. America's embattled Cardinals--all 13 of them--were summoned to an unprecedented meeting to be solely devoted to the spreading uproar...
...institutions prize symbolism as much as the Roman Catholic Church does. And over the past few months, as news surfaced about the sexual abuse of children and teens by priests from Boston to Los Angeles and evidence of official cover-ups grew, American Catholics looked to the Vatican for some kind of sign. The silence out of Rome was deafening until last Monday, when the Pope finally issued a call. America's embattled Cardinals - all 13 of them - were summoned to an unprecedented meeting to be solely devoted to the spreading uproar...
...Catholic Church save itself? No. Only God can save it [RELIGION, April 1]. For 2,000 years, God has been rescuing the Roman Catholic Church from the excesses of the human condition, be it the imperialism of Constantine, pillaging during the Crusades, murder in the Inquisition, the selling of indulgences, sexual debauchery by priests and Popes, or institutional cover-ups. The church is and always has been a reflection of people, warts and all. Let's not defame the good name of the vast majority of its priests and, by inference, the collective body because of the decadence...
...November 2000. SENTENCED. FATHUR ROHMAN AL-GHOZI, 31, Indonesian national arrested in Manila in January for ties to terrorist groups and a failed bomb plot in Singapore, to 10 to 12 years in prison for the illegal possession of explosives; in General Santos City, Philippines. SENTENCED. THOMAS CRANDALL, 47, Roman Catholic priest, to four years and three months in prison by order of a federal justice for dealing drugs from his Florida rectory and New Orleans condominium; in Pensacola, Florida. SENTENCED. LIU YONG, 31, former legislator in the northeastern Chinese industrial hub of Shenyang, to death by order...