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...year-old Sister Anoopa Mary had been found hanging in her room in St. Mary's Convent in Kollam, north of the capital. In what was purportedly her suicide note, she had said she could no longer withstand the senior nuns' harassment. Her father, a cook in the local bishop's house, charged that sexual exploitation had led his daughter to take her life. The convent has denied the allegations, though a court investigation is still ongoing...
...response to other cases of misconduct within the church in Kerala. In June last year, a nun in a Christian hospital was expelled after a video of her having sex with a driver was circulated over mobile phones and the Internet. In October, Pope Benedict XVI suspended a bishop in the coastal city of Cochin after his adoption of a 26-year-old woman as his daughter raised questions. The bishop has denied any wrongdoing and said he adopted the woman out of fatherly love. But the church took him off all duties and instituted an inquiry...
...Williamson, Bishop Richard • apology for saying there were no gas chambers in Nazi concentration camps - though not for believing it - is finally offered...
...Named auxiliary bishop of St. Louis in 2001 after another priest, former Archbishop Rembert Weakland, resigned after acknowledging that the archdiocese paid a $450,000 out-of-court settlement to a man who claimed Weakland had sexually assaulted...
...vespers when he was installed, and there's a party where the bishop knocks on the door. Most do it timidly - tap, tap. Not him - bang, bang! It echoed through the cathedral and let everyone know that Timothy Dolan was there." - The Rev. Steven M. Avella, a history professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee New York Times...