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Just as the archdiocese of Boston was contemplating filing for bankruptcy last week to cope with the estimated 450 civil sex-abuse suits against it, two top Vatican officials were pointing fingers elsewhere. German Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, perhaps the most powerful policymaker in Rome besides the Pope, told a Catholic...
DIED. IVAN ILLICH, 76, social critic and onetime Catholic priest whose iconoclastic views made him a hero to baby boomers in the 1970s; in Bremen, Germany. In essays and books like 1971's Deschooling Society, he criticized the Catholic Church, said public education shouldn't be mandatory and accused hospitals...
RESIGNED. BERNARD LAW, 71, Cardinal of the Boston Archdio-cese; as the city's archbishop following a meeting with Pope John Paul II in the Vatican; in Rome. Law is the highest-ranking Catholic leader to step down in the wake of a series of sex scandals that have plagued...
Pope John Paul II accepted the resignation of Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53 last Friday in the wake of public outrage that Boston’s Roman Catholic archbishop had repeatedly allowed priests accused of child molestation to continue to work for the Church.
Although he was raised a Catholic in an East Timor village and was originally named Roberto Freitas, the 39-year-old Hasan became a Muslim when he was still a teenager. He is not the only Indonesian running questionable shelters for East Ti-morese children. The nephew of the former...