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...University’s Catholic leaders say they have not focused on the effects of the scandal and the questions of priestly celibacy or the possible resignation of Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53 because students have expressed little need for a discussion...
Apart from a discussion on the scandal that took place at the ARCO Forum late last month, which few Catholic Student Association (CSA) members attended, the CSA has not held any public discussion of the issue...
...Roman Catholics across the country fill the pews for Easter Mass, many lament the scandal that has shaken their belief to the core. "Of course we're outraged," says Herb Timm, a Winnetka, Ill., parishioner. Holy Family worshiper Ed Ternan called it a "milestone moment in the life of the church," tragic for the victims, tragic for the priests, tragic for the church. "The old way of dealing with it by not dealing with it is not going to work." Instead church leaders need to pray that they can find the remedy before parishioners lose their faith...
...Indonesian justice that even if he is convicted and sentenced, Akbar may never actually go to jail-not if the case of Central Bank Governor Syahril Sabirin is any precedent. Syahril was sentenced on March 13 to three years in prison for his role in a banking slush fund scandal, but remains a free man pending an appeal. Absurdly, convicted felon Syahril still goes to work every day at the central bank. Like Akbar, he has refused to step down from his post...
...Oxford brand guaranteed this scandal would resonate. Two officials of Pembroke College, one of Oxford's 39 constituent colleges, had to quit last week in disgrace when it emerged they were willing to admit a bright but not stellar boy whose father was offering to contribute $420,000. Unfortunately for them, the "father" was a reporter for the Sunday Times. Pembroke and Oxford swiftly repudiated their supposedly wayward officials. All Britain united in condemning the sale of university places. And who could disagree? In modern meritocracies, state-funded universities are supposed to be incubators of talent, not whorehouses...