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...leave of absence from golf to try to repair his marriage to Elin Nordegren, breathless speculators figured he'd probably have to skip a whole year. After all, he had inflicted plenty of damage and had taken quite a hit himself. (See a brief history of the Tiger Woods scandal...
...after a few weeks of rehabilitation for his reported sex addiction, followed by an awkward public press conference, Tiger appears to at least be working toward some sort of reconciliation with his wife - this week, the couple was photographed together for the first time since the scandal broke. So after spending a couple of weeks tuning up his game, Woods will return to the course at the event that, more than any other tournament on the pro tour, has cemented his status as a golf legend: the Masters, which tees off April 8 at the Augusta National Golf Club...
Amid controversy, the Vatican's instinct is typically to protect the man at the top, particularly when it comes to what is known in both secular and ecclesiastical terms as scandal. That is evident again with a pedophile-priest controversy from the 1980s in Germany that is threatening to draw in the German-born Benedict XVI, even as his countrymen demand that he respond directly. "The Pope was not part of what happened back then, and he shouldn't be part of it now," a Vatican insider tells TIME. "He should offer the greatest silence possible, not because he doesn...
...Church. Pope John Paul II summoned all the American Cardinals to Rome for an urgent meeting on the crisis. It was an unprecedented public acknowledgment of the gravity of the situation from the typically insulated Vatican leadership. But reporters who made the trip from Boston, the epicenter of the scandal, were hardly impressed with the Vatican openness. When the postsummit briefing included five senior Church officials but not the embattled leader of the Boston Archdiocese, a Massachusetts TV reporter barked out a question demanding the whereabouts of Cardinal Bernard Law: "When is the Cardinal going to resign?" The Cardinal would...
...helm of the Munich Archdiocese at the time of Father H's arrival was Ratzinger, who moved on to Rome in 1982 to become a senior Vatican official and eventually rose to the papacy in 2005 with the name Benedict XVI. (See more about the pedophile-priest scandal that is scandalizing the Catholic Church in Germany...