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A scandal that has already cost the Roman Catholic Church dearly in moral authority is beginning to take a serious economic toll. In a landmark agreement in Ireland last week, the church offered $110 million to compensate thousands of victims of sexual and physical abuse that occurred over several decades...
Not everyone is buying the pleas of poverty, however. "The way you browbeat people into taking less money is to convince them there isn't any," says Fred Halstrom, a Boston lawyer representing a plaintiff in a sex-abuse suit there. "But the Catholic Church worldwide has immense assets." The...
The news, when it broke, was greeted with astonishment in the Baltimore suburb of Mount Washington, where Rusnak's neighbors had only kind words for him. He certainly doesn't fit the stereotype of a brash young Master of the Universe. His career had been steady rather than spectacular. After...
Craig was astonished by the fact that, in a village torn between the Good Men and the Catholic Church, Lizier had developed her own belief system, quite different from those of the establishment and the heretics. Lizier took pleasure in nature and her own body and found no sin in...
The Catholic Church of the fourteenth century would not be happy with such a conclusion. Perhaps The Good Men is “a novel of heresy” after all.