Word: scandal
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...relentless scrutiny of the public’s microscope drive couples apart almost instantly. By contrast, in the political sphere, it seems that “I do” still means forever. Nowhere is this peculiarity more apparent than in the wake of a high-profile political sex scandal...
There is no reason to think that these marriages are going to deteriorate as their respective crises fade from the front page. In fact, presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and her husband Bill seem to be doing just fine together after 1998’s highly publicized Monica Lewinsky scandal and a handful of Bill’s other dalliances...
...fact of the matter is that both the embattled politician and his or her spouse stand to lose big if their marriage itself ends in scandal. For the former, this can mean further tarnishing an already-troubled political career, and for the latter a second professional sacrifice made for personal reasons...
...ABUSE Benedict restated the "deep shame" at the scandal that he first announced on the plane to Washington; and recalled how individual bishops have spoken to him about "the enormous pain that your communities have suffered when clerics have betrayed their priestly obligations and duties by such gravely immoral behavior." But the Pontiff also seconded American Cardinal Francis George's introductory statement that the abuse was "sometimes very badly handled" by the Church hierarchy. The acknowledgement that guilt might rest not only with pedophile priests, but with members of the church hierarchy, provoked surprise. "That is significant, that...
However, the Pope also made a point of placing the response to the scandal in "a wider context of sexual mores," citing pornography and the decline of traditional family models. "What does it mean to speak of child protection when pornography and violence can be viewed in so many homes through media widely available today?" It remains to be seen which Catholics will find most meaningful: Benedict's groundbreaking but guarded admission or his contextualization of abuse in what he sees as a general U.S. trend toward loose, if legal sexual practices...