The Roman Catholic Church is facing two sexual abuse scandals. One, concerning children and young adults, was confronted with painful directness as three hundred of the nation's bishops met in Dallas recently.
The other largely was and remains ignored.
"When will the nun stories surface again?" Allan Wolper asked recently in the monthly column he writes on ethics for Editor & Publisher.
The nun stories are not sweet tales of singing sisters. They are accounts of the sexual abuse and rape of nuns by priests and bishops in 23 countries -- including the United States -- over a 10-year period. Since the National Catholic Reporter published its two-year investigation in March 2001, the Vatican's silence has been even more deafening than its tepid response to the child-abuse scandal in this country.
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