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...nation's Roman Catholic bishops last week adopted a new policy for handling priests accused of sexual abuse. The plan amends the one adopted by the bishops in June but rejected by the Vatican out of concern that it denied clerics due process. How does the new plan work once it gets the expected Vatican approval? A Notebook primer...
...wear a collar or give Communion, and he may be formally stripped of his status. If he maintains his innocence, he can appeal to the Vatican...
...wants more lust and leer in this encounter--and the whole film. Rosamund Pike, who plays MI6 agent Miranda Frost, jokes that "Lee wants to make this an X-rated Bond film." In truth, he just wants a "traditional" Bond. After Dr. No's release in 1962, the Vatican condemned the film's amorality, and in 1965, TIME disdained the popularity of "the sex, violence and snobbery with which Fleming endowed his British secret agent." But lately Bond's ardor has been mostly martial. "I was worried that he was turning into an SAS man, machine-gunning everyone," says Tamahori...
Back in June, dissenting U.S. church leaders said the zero-tolerance proviso casts aside notions of forgiveness and redemption, but they didn't carry the day. Now Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, who heads a key Vatican office that will help write the final policy, is echoing the disagreement. He said at a press conference on Friday that the bishops slighted "fundamental principles of the church," including "conversion," the basic idea that sinners can change...
...back in the U.S., reformers seemed to have little patience for appeals to Canon law. Says Mike Emerton of Voice of the Faithful, a group that grew out of dismay over the church's mishandling of Boston abusers: "[The Vatican] shows they have no understanding of the depth of this problem." --By John Cloud. Reported by Jeff Israely/Rome and Maggie Sieger/Chicago