Weblog: Palm Sunday Service Bombed, Priest and 2 Girls Killed
The GOP woos black clergy, the Easter Bunny meets Santa, and other stories from online sources around the world
Ted Olsen | posted 3/01/2002 12:00AM
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U.S. Catholics, sad and angry, still keeping faith | Many, in fact, see the chance for institutional changes, although there is fierce disagreement on what those changes should be. Many also continue to draw distinctions between their faith and the pronouncements and practices of their church leaders. (The New York Times)
Church abuse news:
More than 200 priests have been removed, survey says | A Post-Dispatch survey of the 178 Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States shows that at least 232 priests have been removed over the past two decades because of sexual misconduct with minors. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Doctors: Church used us | A nationally renowned psychiatric hospital that for years has treated clergy accused of sexual misconduct now says it was deceived by the Roman Catholic Church into providing reports that the church used to keep abusive priests in the ministry. (The Hartford [Conn.] Courant)
Meanwhile, at the Vatican | The Pope breaks his virtual silence. But will he act? (U.S. News & World Report)
Big city and bayou | The geography of perversion (U.S. News & World Report)
Church sex scandal taints Holy Week | Around the country, many priests used the themes of suffering, frayed trust and redemption contained in the traditional Palm Sunday readings, to address the crisis (Associated Press)
Uncovering a cover-up | A decades-old church scandal is suddenly a front-page story (Newsday)
Confidentiality of clergy | Priest sex scandal shakes church's veil of secrecy (San Francisco Chronicle)
Due process for priests | The church has gone from hiding priests to booting them. Neither is the right answer. (Walter R. Hampton Jr., The Hartford Courant)
It's my church; it's my family | Twelve years of Catholic school and not one priest hit on me. What was wrong with me? (Dan Haley, The Denver Post)
The Vatican rag | The Pope's few sentences about the pedophilia scandal were more sympathetic to the put-upon priests than the mauled victims (Maureen Dowd, The New York Times)
Cleansing the churches | Rome's reforms do not go quite far enough (Editorial, The Guardian, London)
Is church abuse scandal about pedophilia or homosexuality?
Media silent on gays in clergy | Issue is homosexuality, not pedophilia, say priests, theologians and others (The Washington Times)
Critics see 'gay bullying' at seminaries | A Connecticut priest has claimed a network of gay-leaning bullies exists in some Catholic seminaries, where straight students are ostracized for advocating traditional teaching. (New York Post)
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