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...instincts. In his greeting, the Pontiff did not mention the war, though he did call for "patient efforts of international diplomacy to resolve conflicts." The Pope will need to draw on all of that sensitivity. His visit came as many American Catholics remain livid over the church's recent pedophilia scandals. Benedict agreed in remarks to U.S. bishops that the issue had been "sometimes very badly handled"--the first real admission of the church's culpability--but still found enough blame to lay on America's "wider context of sexual mores" as well. The Pope's political reflexes will...
...ideological spectrum, forcing the audience to abandon political allegiances and approach the show from a common standpoint of startled acceptance.Uys has deftly adapted his act to suit American audiences. In addition to providing the requisite background information on South African politics, he examines American political issues such as church pedophilia and the Democratic primary. He draws startling parallels between American and South African politics, describing the operation of the ANC as “First World corruption.”Though tempered by comedy, Uys paints a bleak, totalizing picture of the corruption, incompetence, and bigotry that permeates national...
...United States since the priest sex abuse crisis erupted in 2001. It is a controversy that has left much of the American laity bitterly disillusioned with their Church's leadership. For many of the 67 million American Catholics, how the Pope confronts the lingering fallout from the pedophilia scandal may largely determine the success of this visit...
Some of those most directly involved with the issue remain deeply skeptical of a Vatican leadership they say has largely washed its hands of the pedophilia scandal, calling it an "American problem" and blaming the media for blowing it out of proportion. David Clohessy, head of the SNAP sex abuse victims group, said the Vatican continues to lack real measures for combating sex abuse within its ranks. "[Benedict] will totally avoid reference to the ongoing complicity and duplicity and recklessness of top church officials," he said "That's the scandal." Clohessy also called on the Pope...
Let’s pray that Harvard can handle a little “Doubt.” In her first directorial project since high school, Sara L. Wright ’09 brings John Patrick Shanley’s provocative play about priesthood and pedophilia to the Loeb Ex this weekend. “Doubt,” which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2005, tells the story of an abusive priest named Father Flynn, who is accused by Sister Aloysius of sexually abusing a student. Wright cites the play’s relevance and powerful thematic content...