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■ BOSTON (AP) — Cardinal
Bernard Law said Sunday that
expectations for reform follow
ing the recent summit of cardi
nals were too high, reiterating
that the creation of a national
policy on sexually abusive
priests would have to wait until
a Catholic bishops conference.
“As a group of cardinal arch
bishops, we were able to say
that there were certain things
that we felt we would like to
bring to that June meeting”
Law told the congregation at
the beginning of Mass at
Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy
Cross. “We were not there to
Church Abuse
Over half the states disciplined priests
More than 150 priests suspected of molesting minors have been
taken off duty or resigned since January.
i i States where priests have
been taken off duty or resigned
Dioceses review policies
Dioceses in the following states have reviewed their policies
regarding sexual abuse.
make decisions.”
Cardinals across the country
are reporting back after a two-day
gathering in Rome, where they
agreed they would recommend a
process to defrock any priest who
has become “notorious and is
guilty of the serial, predatory sex
ual abuse of minors.”
During the short statement.
Law did not address calls for
his resignation. But he referred
to himself and his fellow priests
as “wounded healers.”
“These are not easy days to
serve in the pastoral role that
is mine,” Law said during the
special Mass dedicated to hope
and healing.
“All of us are wounded heal
ers,” he said. “And when we
remember that, we are able to be
the people that we should be ...
When we are not that, we degen
erate into anger and division. And
that’s not who we are. That’s not
who God calls us to be.”
Law also called for a special
day of prayer about the sexual
abuse crisis, to be held during
the Pentecost celebrations,
which start May 10.
Appearing on morning news
shows Sunday, U.S. cardinals
who attended the Vatican meet
ing last week indicated there
still was no agreement on
whether clergymen accused of
sexual abuse should be expelled
from the priesthood.
Speaking on “Fox News
Sunday,” Cardinal Theodore
McCarrick of Washington said
he supported ousting any priest
accused in the future but said
the cardinals were divided
about whether the policies
should apply to past allegations.
Cardinal Francis George of
Chicago, who appeared on sever
al shows, said there still needs to
be some discussion on the “one
strike and you’re out” approach.
On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he
said “mandated sentences” may
not be the answer and that cardi
nals needed some discretion.
The U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops, at its June
meeting in Dallas, is expected
to vote on whether to approve a
national policy that will be
binding on every diocese.
Cardinal Edward Szoka, past
leader of the Detroit archdiocese,
argued Sunday that pedophilia is
no more prevalent among priests
than it is in any other profession.
Szoka, who now works at the
Vatican and attended last week’s
summit, was the commencement
speaker at Sacred Heart
Seminary in Detroit.
“We don’t deny the problem
of pedophilia. We deeply regret
it. We are ashamed of it and will
do whatever is necessary to cor
rect it,” said Szoka, 74. “But we
do reject the attempts to dis
credit the priesthood and the
Catholic Church.”
The sex abuse scandal began
enveloping the church in
January after revelations that
the Archdiocese of Boston had
shuttled now-defrocked priest
John Geoghan from parish to
parish despite repeated allega
tions that he was a pedophile.
Geoghan has been accused of
abusing more than 130 children,
and is serving a nine- to 10-year
prison sentence for abuse.
The calls for Law’s resigna
tion increased this month with
the release of 1,600 archdiocese
documents that reveal the Rev.
Paul Shanley’s involvement
with the North American Man-
Boy Love Association.
In civil lawsuits, the former
“street priest” has been charged
with repeatedly raping young
boys during his tenure at a
Newton parish in the 1980s.
Law has denied that his res
ignation was discussed at the
Vatican and, through a spokes
woman, said he will not be
leaving the archdiocese prior to
a scheduled June 5 deposition
in a civil suit fried by one of
Shanley’s alleged victims.
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