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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (100158)	1/25/2004 9:25:04 PM
From: Tom M	Respond to of 132070

I had a feeling they called the Car Talk guys on NPR

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (100158)	1/26/2004 8:52:20 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 132070

Panel: Church must change for crisis to end By Robin Washington Monday, January 26, 2004 Despite having paid millions of dollars to hundreds of victims in Boston and around the country, the Catholic Church remains embroiled in the clergy sexual abuse scandal that won't end until bishops agree to systemic change, a panel of leading national figures on the crises said yesterday. ``This is the result of an addiction to power,'' the Rev. Thomas Doyle, co-author of a 1980s report on clergy abuse ignored by the church, told a Wellesley crowd of about 400. Journalist Jason Berry, who wrote of Doyle's efforts in his 1993 book, ``Lead Us Not Into Temptation,'' said the hierarchy has shown little penchant for change. ``I find it wretchedly appalling that the pope, a good man, a dying man, should be so blind on this issue,'' said Berry, who said despite spending 20 years chronicling the scandal he remains a Catholic. Joining them were A. W. ``Richard'' Sipe, a psychotherapist and former priest widely regarded as a leading expert on abusive clergy, and the national presidents of two victims groups, Susan Archibald of The Linkup and David Clohessy of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests. Sipe said he held out little hope for change in studies commissioned by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on anti-abuse efforts. ``It's as if the IRS comes to you and says, `Look, do an audit of your own taxes,' '' he said. ``The real audits are in the reports of the grand juries.'' Sipe's claim that numerous priests and even bishops continue to have sexual relationships with adult women prompted one attendee to call for the ``outing'' of all such clerics. Afterward, victims attorney Carmen Durso said, ``That's probably a major reason why in the past they haven't exposed abusers, in fear that their own secrets would come out.'’