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• Judge: Cardinal Must Answer Questions | Man claims Cardinal Law and the Boston Archdiocese failed to protect him from being sexually abused (Associated Press)
  
  
• Sinead O'Connor: Forgive the priests | "All pedophiles whether in church or street or home, should be dealt with by the laws of man and God in unison. All who protected them should admit their mistakes and step down from their jobs. All of us who are in deep grief about these scandals must be careful to learn the lessons within them. It is now our job as I see it, to teach the teachers forgiveness and true Christianity." (Jeannette Walls, MSNBC)
  
  
• Church Abuse Prosecutors Check Limits on Cases | There's even talk among the nation's prosecutors of circumventing statutes of limitations, with a theory that the legal clock shouldn't start ticking if church officials kept allegations from law enforcement (Associated Press)

Life ethics:

• Bush on human cloning | Basically the issue boils down to life and death (Editorial, The Washington Times)
  
  
• Church funds adult stem cell study | Australia's Catholic Church offered to co-fund research on the use of adult stem cells as part of its ongoing campaign against embryonic stem cell research. (AAP)
  
  
• Abortion first | Leaving all the kids involved behind. (Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review Online)
  
  
• Anti-abortion group fails to halt sale of 'day after' pill in Britain | Group claimed the practice amounted to "procuring a miscarriage", a crime under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Judge rejects ban on morning-after pill (The Guardian)
  
  
• Australian court OKs fertility treatment for single women, lesbians | Roman Catholic Church strongly opposed decision (Associated Press)
  
  
• Abortion-consent law rejected | Parent-notification rule held unconstitutional (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Also: Federal appeals court rejects Colorado parental notification law (Associated Press)

Sex & marriage:

• Celibacy has history beyond priests | It's actually been followed in many cultures since ancient times: by secluded monks, Rome's Vestal Virgins, and powerful leaders such as Mohandas Gandhi and Queen Elizabeth I (Associated Press)
  
  
• Altared states | Catholic Church facing increased pressure to let priests marry, as they do in related denominations (The Hartford [Conn.] Courant)
  
  
• Three priests oppose ban on gay marriage (The Boston Globe)

Politics & law:

• Faith in the system | The possibility that a Jew might run against a Mormon in a heavily Catholic state makes religious issues hard to avoid in this year's race for governor (The Boston Phoenix)
  
  
• Ball now back in politicians' hands: Church | Catholics want law blocking single women and lesbians using IVF (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• Govt. may change sex discrimination laws (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• 'Missing minister' pursues lawsuit | James Simmons wants to rescind Barre Cox's death certificate (Abilene [Tex.] Reporter-News)
  
  
• Also: Minister presumed dead is alive and seeking estate (Associated Press)
  
  
• Jewish, evangelical and civil liberties groups denounce 'referendumb' | Ballot measure asks whether "Aboriginal self-government should have the characteristics of local government, with powers delegated from Canada and British Columbia" (Vancouver Sun)

Church and state:

• Satanic student group seeks funding at University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh | Obsidian Enlightenment will ask student government for thousands in student funds to promote its programs. (Oshkosh Northwestern)
  
  

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April (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46