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• Watch that pedophile priest purge not become a witch-hunt | So much good is coming out of the purge now taking place in the U.S. Catholic Church; it would be a shame for it to get diluted by blind anger, scapegoating and an insidious kind of mob psychology. (Stephanie Salter, San Francisco Chronicle)
  
  
• Ex-priest described at his trial as a 'rebel' | Kimball charged with rape, molestation (San Francisco Chronicle)
  
  
• All faiths question handling of abuse | Debate over celibacy as factor is rancorous (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Whose sin is it? | Society? The media? The church? (Paige Byrne Shortal, St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
  
  

Other stories of interest:

• Russia's Protestants team up to get stronger voice | Baptists, Pentecostalists and Seventh-day Adventists unite to oppose government restrictions (The Moscow Times)
  
  
• A nun's call for inclusion | The empowerment one feels in a collaborative community of religious women can't help but estrange you from the closed hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. (Eileen McNamara, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Sea World Orlando's joyful noise | Park plans to host a Christian music concert, joining other local theme parks that have held such performances in years past. (Associated Press)
  
  
• In the land of faith, a time for utter disbelief | The Holy Land has become a war zone with no front. Returning to this place after an absence of more than three years is an exercise in sadness. (Serge Schmemann, The New York Times)
  
  
• Homosexual teacher loses appeal in taunting suit | Tommy R. Schroeder claimed he was driven to a nervous breakdown and disability retirement in 1998 by five years of crude heckling by elementary and middle-school students in Wisconsin (The Washington Times)
  
  

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March (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46