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Topic: Catholic Church sex abuse

Catholic Priest Holding a Wooden Crucifix (Getty Images/ Ryan J Lane)

Can married priests save Catholicism?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Pope Francis (AP/Denis Balibouse)

Pope Francis says no to death penalty

Matthew Rozsa
Junot Diaz; Benedict Cumberbatch as Patrick Melrose in "Patrick Melrose" (Getty/Mark Wilson/Showtime/Ollie Upton)

Is a cycle of abuse inevitable?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Larry Nassar stands as he is sentenced by Judge Janice Cunningham (Getty/Scott Olson)

The costs of surviving sexual abuse

Marci Hamilton
R. Kelly (Getty/Michael Loccisano)

Protecting children from abuse

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/dbvirago)

punish offenders? it's hard

Mathew Schmalz - The Conversation
Dennis Hastert (AP/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Institutional sexual abuse

Donald McCarthy
John Nienstedt (AP/Craig Lassig)

Jenny Kutner
Pope Francis arrives at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam August 18, 2014. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji (SOUTH KOREA) (Kim Hong-ji)

Jenny Kutner
Woody Allen (AP/Matt Sayles)

The Allen ambiguity

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Richard Dawkins (Reuters/Chris Keane)

Dawkins is dead wrong on abuse

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Cardinal Roger Mahony (AP/Al Seib)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Cardinal George Pell of Australia (Reutes/Tim Wimborne)

"Abortion is worse than abuse"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(AP/Scott Campbell)

Ant-gay cardinal is gay

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(AP/Andrew Medichini)

Pope retires with immunity

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Reuters)

More Catholic abuse cover-ups

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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