Perspective
Apr. 8, 2010
The Church Only Speaks Repentance
The scandal involving sexual crimes continues, but the Catholic Church can't quite nail down the concept of repentance, writes Ira Shafiroff of Southwestern Law School.
In the continuing scandal involving sexual crimes by Roman Catholic priests, many church officials have used the word, "repentance." Yet, astoundingly, it seems that these authorities have no grasp of the concept.
The late Rev. Lawrence Murphy, who molested as many as 200 children from 1950 to 1974, and, according to the New York Times, perhaps even more for years thereafter, appealed to Cardinal Joseph Ratz...
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