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Yesterday Pope Benedict’s astonishing words of truth-telling about the sex abuse scandal were reported. And now I wish to draw your attention to an absolutely remarkable speech that Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, the Catholic primate of Ireland, has just delivered, on the state of the Church in Ireland. It is bleak and sobering, but it is…

One of the cartoonists who got in trouble with Muslims for drawing the Prophet was physically attacked in a classroom lecture about free speech by one or more lunatics who broke his glasses. The Associated Press filed a 14-paragraph dispatch about the event, and never once indicate that his attackers were Muslims — a fact…

This is fairly breathtaking stuff: The pontiff said the crisis over paedophile priests was “born from sins within the church” not outside, and called for penance. In some of his strongest comments to date, Pope Benedict said the Catholic church had always suffered from internal problems, but that “today we see it in a truly…

What happens to a priest who is falsely accused? Where does he go to get his reputation back? This story is a reminder that a mere accusation, no matter how unfounded, is enough to ruin a man’s reputation and clerical career, at least in this current environment.
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