April 23, 2010: Laity and the Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal
"The whole Vatican needs to come to grips with this," says Catholic journalist and editor Margaret Steinfels, and "they should stop blaming the messengers."

"The whole Vatican needs to come to grips with this," says Catholic journalist and editor Margaret Steinfels, and "they should stop blaming the messengers."
Rizwan Jaka says his family chose home schooling in order to provide "strong values, strong academics, strong respect and understanding of our faith, as well as respect for other faiths."
Managing editor Kim Lawton returns to the church, clinic, and school her missionary grandparents helped to establish in Haiti more than 30 years ago.
Go behind the scenes with the Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly crew on their recent reporting trip to Haiti.
Watch the scene outside the Supreme Court on April 19 following oral arguments in the case of Christian Legal Society v Martinez.
Benyamin Cohen wrote a book about his year-long exploration of Christianity, and he used what he learned to reflect on the meaning of his own Jewish faith.
A new generation of young evangelicals who grew up after the Cold War, says Richard Cizik, advocate reducing nuclear arms and locking down nuclear materials.
"The Constitution protects the rights of groups to come together to articulate their messages and choose their messengers," says Greg Baylor, attorney for the Christian Legal Society.
A former president's effort to rid the world of a painful parasitic disease has been praised as an effective model for how to tackle entrenched poverty and other global problems.
Revisit our 2005 conversation about the Iraq war with Anthony Shadid, who this week won his second Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.

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