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Alternative weekly looks at Bishop Tod Brown After a brief lead-in showing Brown’s infamous Jan. 18 Martin Luther rip-off (during which he nailed his “Covenant with the Faithful” to the door of Orange’s Holy Family Cathedral), Nightline correspondent Ron Claiborne went to business. He gave an excellent summary of the sex scandal that has plagued…

Interesting article from the UK Tablet on the sexual abuse report, focusing on the flashpoint of some of our discussions here. Personal or systemic sin? Or both? “PIU difettoso, il migliore,” as they say in Rome: “The worse, the better.” The very awfulness of the report made it, at first, welcome reading within the Curia.…

From Zenit, thoughts from a CDF official who offered his thoughts on the application of sexual-abuse policies: 2. Another matter concerns the age of the victim. The recent legislation puts this at “under 18 years.” This follows a number of civil laws. It has to be pointed out, however, that this innovation does complicate the…

Of The Passion of the Christ Christ struggles with his capacity to be the sin-bearing Son. This is the point of the devil’s attack. The seventeenth-century French thinker Blaise Pascal has one of the most acute phrases on this aspect of the Passion, and I suggest that Gibson’s film will not be properly understood without…
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