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• How many priests will suffer bad faith? | Innocents have had their lives ruined by baseless accusations (Dennis Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  

Using abuse to make other cases:

• Can the church survive? | The discovery of sin. (William F. Buckley, National Review Online)
  
  
• A cloud of sexism over the church | The sad and ironic history of the relationship between Christianity and women has a great deal to do with the current scandal in what remains an all-male institution. (Robert S. McElvaine, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Church and Congress | Both Catholic cardinals and U.S. legislators work in rule-driven hierarchies. If the lawmakers can make reforms, then why can't the priests? (Eleanor Clift, Newsweek)
  
  
• Church of the people, not of the priests | The church is where it has always been: in the people of God, not in the trappings of hierarchical mendacity and excess. (Edward L. Beck, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• The Church in crisis | The Roman Catholic Church must reconsider not only celibacy, but its entire approach to sexuality (Editorial, The Toledo Blade)
  
  
• Celibacy for beginners | Yes, it's an issue, but it's not the reason for the church's troubles (Philip Jenkins, The Washington Post)
  
  
• The struggle with celibacy | What a national scandal says, and doesn't, about a priestly practice. (Lorenzo Albacete, The New York Times)
  
  

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