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A look inside the board
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awelborn
Jason Berry writes on the work of the Bishops’ review board, through the eyes of one member in particular Three days before the National Review Board released its report, attorney Pamela D. Hayes left her Fifth Avenue law office in midtown Manhattan for Washington and the final leg of work with her 11 colleagues. As…
Missed this one…
By
awelborn
From last Sunday’s WaPo: Clerical Sexual Abuse and the Courts Until now, prosecutors have been loath to find mens rea, or criminal intent, in any bishop or church leader for aiding and abetting. No matter how serious their malfeasance, surely they did not intend that minors be harmed. But bad has now gone to worse.…
The congregation and the offender
By
awelborn
A thought-provoking story about a church and a criminal The prosecution of an ex-policeman convicted of coercing sex from women has brought attention to an unlikely place: a large, liberal and feminist church congregation that offered to oversee his punishment so he could avoid going to prison. First Congregational Church had never before gone to…
Instead of…
By
awelborn
….spending a lot of time and energy arguing about the role of secular Jews in communism, why don’t we worry about the role of American Catholics in supporting legal abortion and other fruits of contemporary civilization? I mean, really.
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