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The Globe and Mail — Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2002-04-16
Pope John Paul has ordered U.S. cardinals to meet him in Rome to discuss sex-abuse scandals in the American church, just days after telling U.S. Roman Catholic leaders he was leaving it to them to resolve the problem...
Cardinal Law, who heads the fourth-largest archdiocese in the United States, has been criticized publicly for shifting priests accused of sexual abuse from one church to another, rather than getting rid of them. He is a friend of the Pope and an adviser to the family of U.S. President George W. Bush.
The scandal shaking the Roman Catholic Church in the United States has unearthed hundreds of complaints against priests and led to clergy being removed from their posts in states from New York to California. A number of church leaders have been accused of protecting abusive priests rather than reporting them to authorities...
The meeting at the Vatican with 13 cardinals and leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is to be held on April 23 and 24.
Webmaster's comment:
It is interesting that the author of this article is listed as "Religion and ethics reporter".
Why, one might ask, should religion and ethics be lumped together?
Religious institutions may claim to have a certain -- or even absolute! -- expertise with regard to ethics,
but in general they tend towards moral incompetence, because their morality is based on mythology.
The moral expertise of a priest (or pastor, or ayatollah, etc.) is not necessarily of any greater value than the psychological expertise of an astrologer.
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