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	Abuse of a ‘Boy’ or a ‘Young Man’? GetReligon April 24, 2010 http://www.bishop-accountability.org/blog/mt.cgi?__mode=view&_type=entry&blog_id=1 [with video] Anyone who picked up a major newspaper today knows that one of the hot stories on the other side of the Atlantic is the resignation of Bishop Roger Vangheluwe of Brugge, Belgium — the latest star to fall in the current wave of clergy sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. But why did the bishop resign? This is where to plot gets more complicated. On closer inspection of the words located in between some crucial major-media quotation marks, it appears that we may have another translation problem on our hands. Yes, we’re talking about the New York Times, again. Here is the top of one report from Catholic News Service, a source that tends to take church documents very seriously. Let us attend: VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of a Belgian bishop who admitted to sexually abusing a young man.
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