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...institutions prize symbolism as much as the Roman Catholic Church does. And over the past few months, as news surfaced about the sexual abuse of children and teens by priests from Boston to Los Angeles and evidence of official cover-ups grew, American Catholics looked to the Vatican for some kind of sign. The silence out of Rome was deafening until last Monday, when the Pope finally issued a call. America's embattled Cardinals - all 13 of them - were summoned to an unprecedented meeting to be solely devoted to the spreading uproar...
...convocation, taking place today, means the Vatican has finally accepted that the American church's pedophilia problem is Rome's as well. "When there's a problem in the family, you call the members of the family together to discuss it," says a Vatican insider...
...cause youngsters. "We have our convictions upside down, if we are truly concerned with boys," he said. "The 'cure' does far more damage." This was not Shanley's only endorsement of pedophilia. Two other times, in 1977 and 1985, laypersons reported similar comments to the Archdiocese. Even the Vatican inquired about Shanley--writing in 1978 to Boston's then Cardinal, Humberto Medeiros, to complain about Shanley's endorsement of homosexuality. In response, the Cardinal ordered Shanley not to minister to gays anymore. Shanley's unfettered access to children continued, however...
...VATICAN VOLUMES...
...story of the abusive-priest cases will be writing a book for Little, Brown. Jimmy Breslin will be writing a book for Crown. According to PW, "Breslin will travel widely, talking to church officials and victims alike about the dimensions of the problem; he will even go to the Vatican. He has made it clear in his columns that he believes the doctrine of priestly celibacy is at the heart of the crisis...