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In All Things
Michael Sean Winters
My colleague and friend Austen Ivereigh has an important post below about the sexual abuse crisis and the way Pope Benedict XVI is now involved in addressing it The situation in Germany itself and in Regensberg particularly has raised the possibility that some enterprising journalist will be sear
In All Things
Austen Ivereigh
Tom Heneghan at Reuters has an excellent analysis piece on the developing central European abuse crisis The more the scandal of Catholic priests sexually abusing boys in Germany spreads the more the focus turns to Rome to see how Pope Benedict reacts The story is getting ever closer to the German
In All Things
Michael Sean Winters
On last weekend rsquo s NPR quiz show Wait Wait Don rsquo t Tell Me host Peter Sagal recalled the resignation of then-Governor Elliott Spitzer who got caught up in a high-end prostitution ring Sagal commented Who know that would be the high water mark for moral conduct among New York politic
In All Things
Austen Ivereigh
It is extremely unusual for the Vatican to make a statement on the clerical sex abuse crisis The one read out by the Pope s spokesman Federico Lombardi on Vatican Radio yesterday is a sign that Rome feels it can no longer resist the accusation that it is maintaining a wall of silence on the issue
In All Things
Kevin Clarke
European Catholics who may have hoped sexual abuse perpetrated by Catholic clergy was mostly a North American problem may be waking up to the widespread reality of this crisis A sudden eruption of stories of abuse emerging from Ireland Germany Austria and the Netherlands must be reverberating unp
In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
Our friends at Salt amp Light have posted an nbsp unofficial transcription of an address by William Cardinal Levada prefect of the CDF nbsp on Anglicanorum coetibus the Vatican nbsp document on nbsp the reception into the church of nbsp members of the Anglican communion nbsp Cardinal Levada