COLUMNA INVITADA
Extremo sacrilegio, Extremas consecuencias

Enero 2003por Michael J. Miller

Michael J. Miller es el traductor para Ignatius Press de Priestwood and Diaconate, del Obispo Gerhard Ludwig Müller, de Regensburg, Alemania.

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Maryland
Workers at the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes found $40,000 worth of rare coins on the grounds and later discovered the bags of money had only been left there for safekeeping under the Virgin's watchful eye.

Hong Kong
A Hong Kong student nicknamed the Chinese Warren Buffet has been accused of blackmailing a Catholic priest with intimate images, threatening to extort $800,000.

Maryland
Researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, reporting initial findings in their look into causes of the Catholic church's 2002 sexual-abuse scandal, say they can't attribute it to gay priests.

California
Police arrested a 22-year-old Muslim man after he yelled, "Allah is power" and tore a crucifix from a customers's neck and scared others at a Bay area shopping center.

Washington DC
A Catholic coalition, citing several controversial grants to groups which opposed Church teaching, has called for reform of the U.S. bishops' Catholic Campaign for Human Development.

Tanzania
A United Nations court has acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide, murder, and extermination in Rwanda's 1994 genocide after the judge said prosecution failed to prove its case.

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