Thursday, February 23, 2012
Catholic Church officials in Ireland went back to the book in their latest effort to deal with the ongoing clergy sex abuse saga there. Before 1,000 people in Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral–including many who as children had been raped by priests–Diarmuid Martin, … Continue reading
Maeve O’Rourke is the Global Human Rights fellow at the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. On the HRP blog, she outlined my recent article on the abuses of the Catholic church in Ireland, then pointed out an omission: … Continue reading
Cardinal Sean O’Malley, one of a team of “visitators” sent by the pope to investigate Catholic Ireland in the wake of the clergy sex abuse scandal, will supposedly tell Benedict that the situation is dire. Where the rest of Europe … Continue reading
Perhaps the most important part of the clergy sex abuse saga in Ireland–the subject of my story that ran last Sunday–is how the country has paneled government investigations into the Catholic church. That, as canon lawyer turned victims’ advocate Thomas … Continue reading
Reactions to my story in the New York Times Magazine about the Catholic church in Ireland run in two streams. One follows the line that the church as an institution has wildly overstepped its bounds and needs to be restrained … Continue reading
My article on Catholic Ireland in the New York Times Magazine, a version of which is also running on the front page of the International Herald Tribune, is out this weekend. The bottom line: Ireland–as revealed in the clergy sex … Continue reading
is like watching a game of “Risk” being played by one (very good) player. Some of his random observations, noted by me this evening at a slow food Italian restaurant in Amsterdam over tortelli and sea bream: * The Obama … Continue reading
Video from Friday on the street in Cairo, in which a police vehicle plows into people. To paraphrase several Egyptian bloggers, “This is what we’ve been talking about.”
If you want some radically wide perspective–linking financial crises, Tea Parties, and Egypt–who you gonna call? Noam Chomsky: …it is the old pattern…it goes back 50 years right there in Egypt and the region, and it’s the same elsewhere… We … Continue reading
Where is the Cairo crowd heading? Maybe nowhere… It’s easier to define a revolutionary than a revolution. Hard-wired into most human beings, but never accessed by most of them, is the capacity to be transfigured, to be seized by confidence … Continue reading