Word: scandalize
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Sadly, his species is hardly one of a kind. Recall former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, at the forefront of the GOP’s fanatical call for the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998 during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. At the same time, of course, he was consorting with Callista Bisek, a Congressional aide 23 years his junior. And what of all the members of the Catholic clergy who have been exposed as child molesters since 2002? Their behavior surely jived spectacularly with their public espousal of the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s list...
...Catholic Church’s lengthy history with pedophilia and subsequent cover-ups— turns a more realistic lens on similar subject matter. Written and directed by Amy Berg, a young journalist who said she felt compelled to make the film after Boston’s Cardinal Law scandal broke in 2002, “Deliver Us” manages to maintain its journalistic integrity while conveying the obviously emotional stories of children abused by priests and abandoned by the Church in their time of need...
...victims’ rights like Father Tom Doyle does allow viewers to see the work being done within the Church to combat the problem. But by implicating the Church’s most powerful figure—Cardinal Ratzinger, now known as Pope Benedict XVI—in the scandal, the film accuses the entire hierarchy of the cover-up and reconstructs Church history to peripherally implicate priest celibacy as the cause of clergymen’s sexual deviance. “Deliver Us” does not purport that the priest pedophilia scandal would be solved if priests were...
...gravitas to Barron’s performance.Tony-award winning playwright Alan Bennett’s “Playing Sandwiches” is, in essence, a confession of a convicted pedophile named Wilfred. Williams could not have picked a more timely play to direct in light of the current scandal in Washington. Jack E. Fishburn ’08 successfully wrestled the challenging role of Wilfred by slowly revealing his dark secret and effectively transitioning from levity to heartbreak in a sweeping crescendo. Near the end, Fishburn muttered the bleak line, “It?...
...Foley Damage Assessment - So Far With its finger pointing and mishandling of the scandal, the Republican leadership has given already disaffected voters another reason to throw it out of power