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An Unholy Alliance: When Mob Forgiveness Meets Selective Grace
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An Unholy Alliance: When Mob Forgiveness Meets Selective Grace

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by on Dec 17, 2015 in Featured, Law & Justice, The Social Order, Those in Need
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A small town in Missouri recently came under fire for rallying around an accused child sex offender and shunning the abuse victim—even after the offender pleaded guilty in court. “If it takes a village to raise a child,” said a local prosecuting attorney, “what is a child to do when the village turns its back […]

Penn State Penalty Unfair, but the Right Thing
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Penn State Penalty Unfair, but the Right Thing

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by on Jul 25, 2012 in Columnists, Education, Featured
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Every parent worth his or her salt at one time or another has done what the NCAA did this week when sanctioning Penn State University. Confronted with the misdeeds of our children, we parents often are forced to act in a manner that quickly and emphatically sends a message: Your actions have consequences, not only […]

Homosexuality/Pedophilia Correlation?
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Homosexuality/Pedophilia Correlation?

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by on Dec 01, 2011 in Featured, Government & Politics
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Our decadent society is, alas, now forcing us to look full in the face of yet another moral abomination, namely pedophilia.  Child abuse, says Pope Benedict, “affects every level of society.”  In a speech to a delegation of American Bishops on November 26th, the Pope addressed  the issue of pedophilia, expressing his hope that the […]

Homosexuality and the Church Crisis
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Homosexuality and the Church Crisis

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by on Dec 01, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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Abstract: Due to clergy sex abuse scandals centered primarily in the Northern hemisphere, the moral authority of the Roman Catholic Church has been subjected to an opportunistic siege by prominent individuals and organizations who see the chance to advance their goals, including the ordination of women and the suspension of the requirement for priestly celibacy. […]

Cowardice and Collusion at Penn State
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Cowardice and Collusion at Penn State

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by on Nov 21, 2011 in Featured, Leadership
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In March 1964, New York City was rocked by the grisly murder of Kitty Genovese.  Returning home from her job at a local sports bar, Genovese was attacked in the parking lot of her apartment complex and stabbed in the back while fleeing from her assailant.  The murderer later returned to find Genovese collapsed in […]

Report Abuse to Police, Not Higher-Ups
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Report Abuse to Police, Not Higher-Ups

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by on Nov 12, 2011 in Columnists, Featured, Parenting
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The story related in last week’s Pennsylvania grand jury report had all the ingredients of a classic sex abuse scandal: a popular, successful authority figure suspected for years of molesting boys, a host of higher-ups unwilling to report him to police and a trail of vulnerable children left to suffer unspeakable violations while powerful adults […]

<em>KC Star</em> Omits Story on Top Episcopal Bishop
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KC Star Omits Story on Top Episcopal Bishop

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by on Nov 09, 2011 in Featured, On Media
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[On Monday], the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) held a press conference in front of the Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph to bring attention to a case involving an Episcopal priest, Bede Parry, who is being charged with molesting young boys while he was […]

Sexual Anarchy
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Sexual Anarchy

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by on Sep 04, 2011 in Featured, Life Issues & Bioethics
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In Batman, the Joker rhetorically asks a young Bruce Wayne: “Tell me, kid — you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?” Well, I have. Not by the pale moonlight, but in a brightly lit Four Points Sheraton in Baltimore, Md. On Wednesday, Aug. 17, I — along with the venerable child advocate […]

Media Ignore Child Sex Abuse
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Media Ignore Child Sex Abuse

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by on Aug 16, 2011 in Featured, On Media
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Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments as follows:   Tomorrow there will be a day-long symposium in Baltimore held by practitioners in the field of mental health who will make the case that society unfairly stigmatizes “Minor-Attracted Persons,” a.k.a. adults who are sexually attracted to kids. Run by a non-profit group, B4U-ACT, psychiatrists and others […]

National Catholic Reporter Owes Bishop Finn an Apology
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National Catholic Reporter Owes Bishop Finn an Apology

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by on Jun 24, 2011 in Featured, Vocations
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According to the Vatican II document Inter Mirifica (Decree on the Media of Social Communications), media organizations “should see to it that communications or presentations concerning religious matters are entrusted to worthy and experienced hands and are carried out with fitting reverence” (IM 11). This, apparently, would be news to writer Phyllis Zagano and her […]

When Fathers Fail: Healing the Father Wound
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When Fathers Fail: Healing the Father Wound

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by on Jun 18, 2011 in Featured, Parenting
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Have you ever heard the saying “You can’t give what you don’t have?”  It makes sense doesn’t it?  I can’t give you a dollar if I don’t have a dollar right? But in terms of affection, love and relationships it makes even more sense. If your father was not affectionate, you may have trouble showing […]

Father John Corapi and the State of Due Process for Accused Priests
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Father John Corapi and the State of Due Process for Accused Priests

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by on Jun 17, 2011 in Featured, Vocations
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[Second Editor’s note: We have appended the message of June 20 from SOLT.] [Editor’s note: In light of today’s news about Fr. Corapi, we are rerunning this article which originally appeared on Catholic Lane on April 4 ,2011. We have appended Fr. Corapi’s message, released today, to the end of this article, as it stunningly validates […]

John Jay Study: A $2 Million Exercise in Political Correctness
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John Jay Study: A $2 Million Exercise in Political Correctness

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by on May 24, 2011 in Columnists, Featured, Vocations
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On May 18, researchers from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice released their long-awaited final report, Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010. The research team, led by Karen Terry, Ph.D., gathered an impressive amount of information from which they drew a number of conclusions; […]

Pope Benedict Turns 84 While Belgian Crisis Unfolds
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Pope Benedict Turns 84 While Belgian Crisis Unfolds

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by on Apr 16, 2011 in Featured, Live in Christ
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Pope Benedict XVI, looking very healthy for his years, turned 84 today. He was born in 1927 in Marktl-am-Inn in southern Germany. But also today, shocking revelations coming out of Belgium, where an archbishop has confessed in a television interview to sexual activity with two of his nephews, continue to reverberate. Reflections on Our Crisis […]