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Article: Bishops admit lack of skills to be good shepherds. (Viewpoint).(create an Office for the Protection of Children within their dioceses)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- July 4, 2003
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Recently, Richard Lennon, Boston's interim bishop, and Thomas O'Brien, Phoenix's disgraced and just departed bishop, perhaps unintentionally, presumably inadvertently, and probably naively entered the latest and possibly the most honest plea made so far by Catholic church officials in the sad and still unfolding story of the clergy sex abuse scandal: impotence in the first degree.
They each announced the formation, within their dioceses, of an Office for the Protection of Children. In Boston, a former FBI official was named to head it, much as another FBI official had been named by the National Conference of Catholics Bishops to direct a similar hopeful ...