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I’ll call her Lucinda. She was 13, a little undersized for her age, and pretty with small, neat features and olive skin. Her English, like her Spanish, was flawless; she had grown up speaking both every day of her life. She was from a part of the South Bronx I knew only by precinct. I [...] When the story of former NFL star Lawrence Taylor broke a couple of months ago, I was angry but not surprised to find the victim in the case- a child used in prostitution by a Bronx pimp- referred to as “Taylor’s Accuser.” Really? Even when we’re talking about a child, beaten into submission and presented [...] The invective that’s being hurled at Torry Hansen for returning her adopted son to Russia is sad, but mostly richly deserved. Cooler heads and kinder people than I am will reasonably resist a rush to judgment, of course. Caring for a child who has been raised in an institution, in a remarkably different culture, can’t [...] It continues from the Church and its defenders, desperately trying to alienate further multitudes. And it continues from anti-Catholics and the anti-religious who want the institution brought to its knees, some justified because of personal betrayal but many out of sheer, gleeful contempt. Ross Douthat, a conservative columnist for the New York Times, blames the crisis, [...] “Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.’” Matthew 19:14 (NIV). This lovely, simple sentiment is relevant to me again, after receiving it like a gift from my mother decades ago, because of the actions of my Church yet again. [...] |
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