New Oxford Notes: June 2002
Priestly Pedophilia: Will Good PR Fix It?
OSV's Msgr. Owen F. Campion informs us that PR is really what it's all about.
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Spreading the Disease
A pervasive modern sentiment suggests that "each person has an inalienable right to be considered good, however he behaves."
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The Laity Out There In the Peanut Gallery
When you shoot from the hip you can shoot yourself in the foot. Just ask Fr. Neuhaus.
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Here Come the (Canon) Lawyers
What doth it profit a man if he gains his rights and loses his own soul?
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Perhaps we'll get concern for the poor, advocacy for peace, and a reaching out to believers on the margins along with a restoration of jettisoned elements of Catholic tradition.
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