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Oregon Daily Emerald
Pope condemns sex abuse
in U.S. Catholic churches
By Patricia Montemurri
Knight Ridder Newspapers
VATICAN CITY—Pope John Paul
II sent a message Tuesday to U.S.
Catholics disheartened and disgust
ed by reports of priests who molest
ed minors and superiors who pro
tected them.
Such abuse "is rightly consid
ered a crime by society ... an ap
palling sin in the eyes of God," the
pontiff told 12 American cardi
nals. "The abuse which has caused
this crisis is by every standard
wrong," the pope said in his 30
minute meeting with the prelates.
“To the victims and their families,
wherever they may be, I express my
profound sense of solidarity and
concern,” the pope said, according to
the official English text of the speech
released by the Vatican.
The urgently assembled summit,
called by the pope just eight days ago,
brought together the leaders of major
U.S. dioceses with top Vatican offi
cials to chart a course for dealing with
the exploding sex-abuse scandal.
“People need to know that there is
no place in the priesthood and reli
gious life for those who would harm
the young,” said the pope at the start
of two days of talks.
Meeting participants interviewed
Tuesday did not share summaries of
what each U.S. cardinal contributed
to the discussion, but top church of
ficials said the pope pledged support
for swiftly removing priests accused
of abuse from ministry.
Church officials said discussions
touched on strengthening celibacy in
the priesthood, rather than allowing
priests to marry. And concerns ap
parently were raised about the num
ber of homosexual priests.
Detroit Cardinal Adam Maida
would not give details about his
presentation at the meeting, citing
the confidential nature of the talks.
“I'm not privy to mention what I
said and what others said,” he said.
“We all talked from our experience,
and the way I saw the crisis from Detroit
is what I could share. And, of course,
my experience goes beyond Detroit. ’ ’
Maida, who is both a civil lawyer
and church lawyer, has worked with
other U.S. dioceses on issues such as
due process for priests accused of
wrongdoing. Part of his mission at
the Vatican, he has said, is to work
on resolving disputes between how
church law treats clergy and how
civil law treats lawbreakers.
“The canons I worked on for 20
years are in question now,” said Mai
da, adding that it would take time to
make changes and refinements.
Asked whether the subject of ho
mosexual priests was discussed, Mai
da avoided a direct answer. He said
the meeting focused on priests who
sexually abuse children and youth,
and he reiterated that homosexuality
is not exclusively linked to pedophil
ia, the sexual abuse of children.
At a briefing for hundreds of jour
nalists, Bishop Wilton Gregory of
Belleville, 111., who leads the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops,
made a startling statement, consider
ing the church's perceived intoler
ance of homosexuals and its teach
ing that gay sex is a sin.
“There does exist within Ameri
can seminaries a homosexual atmos
phere or dynamic that makes hetero
sexuals think twice about entering
the priesthood,” Gregory said. “It is
an ongoing struggle to make sure the
Catholic priesthood is not dominat
ed by homosexual men.”
© 2002, Detroit Free Press.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
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in Collaboration with The Orion Society
PRESENTS
Literary and Artistic
Responses to Wrfarism
win jam Kittredge Annick Smith
Barry Lopez Terry Tempest Williams
Scott Russell Sanders Ann Zwinger
Sunday, April 28, 2002
3:00-5:00 p.m.
180 PLC
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will be followed by a book sale and signing.
For more information, or for disability
accommodations, please contact the Oregon
Humanities Center at (541) 346-3934.
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