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• November 20, 2009 12:21 PM help is on the way By Diogenes

  So you're a diocese whose bishop was arrested with kiddie-pix on his laptop. What's the pastoral response? Obvious. You help your priests get in touch with their feelings. Priests in the diocese

• November 20, 2009 11:38 AM it'll be ready for you monday By Diogenes

  In Rome this week for some Kwanzaa shopping and ecumenism, the Archbishop of Canterbury stopped by the Willebrands Symposium to explain that, if you crack a mirror yourself, you never have to worry

Last six items posted prior to November 20, 2009

• November 19, 2009 5:04 PM a regrettably unthreatening threat By Diogenes

  In the wake of the Washington admonition, the Abuse Tracker informs us of an organization that wants to put misbehaving priests -- gay or straight -- back in the news. From the Village

• November 19, 2009 12:07 PM connection/no connection By Diogenes

  The John Jay report offers a brilliant insight into the background for the sex-abuse scandal: The pattern of deviant sexual behavior by clerics is consistent with several other behavioral changes

• November 19, 2009 9:56 AM see what you get for $1.8 million? By Diogenes

  Researchers at New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice were unable to find a connection between priests who shave their legs and global climate change: Some Catholic leaders have contended

• November 18, 2009 4:26 PM rondeau By Diogenes

  "I think it's safe to say there is no safer place for children today than in the Catholic Church," said Bishop Blase Cupich of South Dakota, who presented the John Jay researchers to the

• November 16, 2009 10:07 AM a man of the cloth By Diogenes

  He dumped two wives, two children, and the Catholic Faith, announced to the world he was gay, bailed from the governorship of New Jersey, and moved in with his lover-boy. So what's next for Jim

• November 16, 2009 10:04 AM ecclesia supplet By Diogenes

  Former Diocese of Phoenix priest Dale Fushek is the founder of LifeTeen ministries. In 2005 he was charged with ten misdemeanor counts of criminal sexual mischief, which included indecent exposure,