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Before the trip began Tuesday, the St. Patrick's Cathedral Mass had been billed as the moment the Pope would broach the topic of the U.S. Church's sex abuse crisis. But having already spoken three different times about the crisis since arriving - and offering a poignant and unprecedented private meeting with victims of abusive priests - Benedict focused his remarks in New York on the need to repair the bond between the faithful and their priests. He prayed for "purification" and "healing," assuring the priests of his "spiritual closeness as you strive to respond with Christian hope to the continuing...
...cost-benefit analyses of alternative national policies to control pollutants. “Our primary goal is not to change policy,” Nielsen said. “Our goal is to build the scholarship.” He called for peer-reviewed, published studies on the topic to complement the existing literature. Though the researchers emphasized the long-term nature of the project, they also encouraged its immediate application. “In the short run this is really a bad problem,” said Mun Ho, a fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences...
...hand-picked to succeed him in his old job as head of the Vatican's doctrinal office, offered early signs on Friday that the Vatican will change its internal, or canon, laws concerning the church's response to sexual abuse allegations - a matter that has become the main topic of the Pope's American visit. The changes would follow adjustments made some time ago involving the church's statute of limitations with regard to some particularly egregious offenses. The Cardinal suggested that laws meriting amendment may involve statutes of limitations regarding abuse cases. He gave his comments to reporters...
...fantastic Chinese food in Singapore,” then they’re interested. Because food is something that’s totally universal and everyone shares. You ingest it; you are what you eat. THC: Did the focus of the book shift in its evolution? Did any topic surprise you by coming to the forefront?JL: Well, when I started out, I didn’t know fortune cookies were Japanese. So that was surprising and really came to the forefront, along with a bit more about Chinese immigration. Oh, and Jews and Chinese food got its own chapter...
...backgrounds in excessive depth either. “I don’t go to that great pains to explain,” he said. “I don’t paint it too clearly.” McCarthy did, however, have much to say on the topic of deportation and the treatment of detainees, a subject that many members of the audience touched on in the question and answer session. “We can definitely do better than this as a country,” he said. “It’s inhumane...