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Billy Graham:

• Cincinnati boycotters target Billy Graham | Progressive National Baptist Convention is the latest in a series of cancellations that is slowly crippling Cincinnati's economy (The Washington Times)
  
  
• The sin of sycophancy | Billy Graham's private words recoil on him (Editorial, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Graham tape stokes anxieties | Some find lessons, others suspicion in anti-Semitic comments (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Nixon and the Jews. Again. | If his tirades against Jews weren't anti-Semitism, what were they? (Slate)
  
  

Sex & marriage:

• Bringing civil unions into the church | Gay couples coming to Vermont to seek civil unions are also looking toward churches there to perform them. (The New York Times)
  
  
• A Latino pastor tells homosexuals that God loves them, too (Helen Ubinas, The Hartford [Conn.] Courant)
  
  
• Sept. 11 leaves same-sex partners adrift | Laws bar benefits, even recognition (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Still not wanted | The U.S. military ought to stop persecuting gays and lesbians eager to serve their country at a time of crisis (Editorial, The Washington Post)
  
  
• GOP adopts anti-gay agenda | The only marriage these guys want to protect is the bond between religion and politics (Jon Ralston, Las Vegas Sun)
  
  
• Clerics are trapped on sex chatline | A Greek Orthodox priest who used hidden cameras to catch church staff embezzling Sunday collections and bugged a telephone line used by priests to call sex chatlines has won the U.K. Supreme Court's approval (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Priest, wife fight over lack of sex | A battle over conjugal rights between a priest from New Eersterus in Pretoria North and his estranged wife has resulted in a low-intensity feud between his alienated family and that of his new sweetheart. (City Press, Johannesburg, South Africa)
  
  

Abuse news:

• Are priests more likely to be child molesters? | Psychotherapists and scholars can offer nothing more definitive than educated opinions—and those opinions differ sharply. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Priest abuse cases focus on adolescents | The vast majority of priests who sexually abuse minors choose adolescent boys—not young children—as their targets, according to lawyers and academics who study clergy sexual abuse (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Judging credibility in abuse cases is a tough call for dioceses | The most agonizing cases pit a consistent story from a rational parishioner against a firm denial from a priest with an unimpeachable record. (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Abuse scandal costly to church | Catholic dioceses' settlement of claims approaches $1 billion (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Connecticut report revisits Egan's role in settling abuse cases | Documents appear to show that Cardinal Edward M. Egan, while bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese in Bridgeport, Conn., allowed priests accused of sexual abuse to continue to work. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Church to publish abuse report | Members of a task force formed by Cardinal Bernard Law pledged at their first meeting Saturday to produce a public report on ways to protect children from sexual abuse by priests. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Church may face a grand jury | Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office will ask for information related to alleged sexual misconduct by priests in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati (The Cincinnati Post)
  
  
• Former altar boy describes years of abuse, then years of silence | In 1987, Mark Vincent Serrano was paid in a court settlement not to discuss his years of sexual abuse by a New Jersey priest. Now he believes he must speak out. (The New York Times)
  
  

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March (Web-only) 2002, Vol. 46