Two years ago an Episcopal church court defrocked the Bishop of Pennsylvania, Charles Bennison, after finding that in the 1970s he failed to act on information that his brother, while youth minister at his parish, sexually abused a 14-year-old girl in the congregation. But on Aug. 4, a church appeals board overturned that verdict and [...]
New York Magazine has been doing a good job, lately, of beating parents into the ground. First there was a devastating piece about the abuse of nannies in Brooklyn and Manhattan, about the utter exploitation of babysitters – one to the point of physical abuse – their total import to families, their total powerlessness. That [...]
New rules the Vatican is expected to issue soon on penalties for priests who sexually abuse children will also put the ordaining of women in the same category of the most serious crimes under church law. Church sources told Catholic News Service that the new “norms,” as the policies are called, will include the “attempted [...]
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