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Cullen, who is currently a Nieman Fellow and a member of the Adams House Senior Common Room, was a major contributor to the Globe’s Spotlight series on abuse in the Catholic Church over the past year.
Cullen yesterday presented Adams House with a copy Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church, a compilation of the coverage. All profits from the sale of the book will go to charity, according to Cullen.
Cullen said that since the beginning of his tenure as cardinal, Law failed to identify with the majority of Catholic Bostonians—“the people who fill the collection boxes.”
If the 10-in. by 20-in. by 12-in. receptacle is authentic--and scholars have no reason to believe it's not--and if the inscription refers to the right James--a somewhat dicier proposition--this would be the most important discovery in the history of New Testament archaeology...
More significant, James' ossuary, if real, could become a kind of trans-denominational, scientifically approved relic. The Roman Catholic and various Orthodox churches, all of which regard James as a saint, would venerate it as a relic. Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson, while warning against "building faith on archaeological discovery...