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Pain, Shame, Anger: Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church

By AAN Staff
april 12, 2002  11:14 am
Pain, Shame, Anger: Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church
So a Catholic deacon, a Benedictine monk, a Greek Orthodox priest and a lawyer all walk into a hotel. No, this isn’t the Santa Fe Reporter's annual bad joke issue. These were the participants who joined the Reporter's editorial staff for a roundtable discussion of the national scandal involving the Catholic Church and pedophilic priests. Among the participants was the lawyer who brought suit about 10 years ago against New Mexico’s Archdiocese for victims alleging they were sexually abused by New Mexico priests. Those suits were eventually settled for approximately $50 million. Because New Mexico dealt with these issues in the early ‘90s, its Archdiocese has already instituted many of the measures other churches will likely now adopt, such as psychological screenings and AIDS tests.
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