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When Joe “JoePa” Paterno’s weekly press conference was cancelled Tuesday mere minutes before he was scheduled to speak, Pennsylvanians following the sex abuse scandal that has rocked Penn State and the national college football scene knew it was over–JoePa’s legendary career, that is. The weekly press conference was cancelled by president Graham Spanier who is [...]
Those of us attending Ash Wednesday Mass at the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul were expecting to get the usual solemn prelude to the Lenten season. Instead we were treated to a mea culpa from Cardinal Justin Rigali, whose stentorian voice echoed through the church telling attendees about the most recent scandal involving priests [...]
The Catholic priest sex abuse scandal won’t go away. The Vatican can twist and turn, dissemble and outright lie and it still won’t go away. This week the Pope’s second in command, Secretary of State for the Vatican, Cardinal Tariscio Bertone, thought he was making things better on Monday when he said that celibacy was [...]
