Scandal and canon law.(Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops' Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children)(Book review)

BEFORE DALLAS:

THE U.S. BISHOPS' RESPONSE TO

CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE OF

CHILDREN

by NICHOLAS P. CAFARDI

Paulist, 255 pages, $27.95

IN A 1979 ALLOCUTION, John Paul II declared that "the task of the Church and her historic merit, which is to proclaim and defend in every place and in every age the fundamental human fights, does not exempt her but, on the contrary, obliges her to be herself a mirror of justice for the world." It was with this view of the Church as a mirror of justice that he addressed the bishops of the United States in 1993 in a public letter that ...

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