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Just as the archdiocese of Boston was contemplating filing for bankruptcy last week to cope with the estimated 450 civil sex-abuse suits against it, two top Vatican officials were pointing fingers elsewhere. German Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, perhaps the most powerful policymaker in Rome besides the Pope, told a Catholic news wire that the U.S. sex-abuse scandal was an "intentional, manipulated...desire to discredit the church" by the media. The conservative Ratzinger offered a virtual Vatican seal of approval for recent comments by two Latin American Cardinals--each considered possible papal successors--who also blamed the pedophilia crisis...
...Half Vatican, half Disney World, the Holy See is a particularly fitting home for Caodaism, a kaleidoscopic faith that combines all the major world religions and counts Julius Caesar, Thomas Jefferson and Vladimir Lenin among its saints. Since its recognition by Vietnam's communist government in 1997, Caodaism has flourished, and now tourists flock to its mecca in Tay Ninh province, about 90 kilometers northwest of Ho Chi Minh City. Visitors can wander the gaudy halls of the Holy See in search of enlightenment?or an eyeful. Murals depict the sacred eye of God in a triangle and recreate...
...Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53 took flight on Sunday to the Vatican, he left his bishopric with another stigma after more reports surfaced that he shielded abusive priests. To add additional shame, a council that Law chairs has authorized the Boston Archdiocese to declare bankruptcy to avoid paying legal damages. Law should resign, if not for the sake of Catholic virtue, then for the benefit of the parishioners within his congregation...
...Vatican Times...
...RESIGNED. BISHOP CARLOS BELO, 54, outspoken East Timorese Bishop for the Vatican and spiritual leader of his country's largely Roman Catholic population; claiming ill-health and the need for "a long period of recuperation"; in Dili, East Timor. A staunch defender of human rights, Belo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize with Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta in 1996 for their efforts to bring peace to the region, is revered for standing up to the Indonesian military during its harsh rule of East Timor before the territory's in-dependence...