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The presence of two key Clinton Sexgate impeachment players on a board of U.S. Catholic bishops convened to monitor the Church's handling of the priest sex abuse scandal is raising eyebrows. "The resignation of former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating as chairman of the National Review Board formed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops ... raises additional troubling questions concerning the board's composition," the Washington, D.C.-based legal watchdog group Judicial Watch said on Monday. Serving on the panel all but unnoticed: high-powered Beltway lawyer Robert Bennett, who represented Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones case and presided over Clinton's deposition...

Reflections on Covenant and Mission Consultation of the National Council of Synagogues andthe Bishops Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs August 12, 2002 PREFACE For more than twenty years leaders of the Jewish and Roman Catholic communities in the United States have met semi-annually to discuss a wide range of topics affecting Catholic-Jewish relations. Currently, the participants in these ongoing consultations are delegates of the Bishops Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (BCEIA) and of the National Council of Synagogues (NCS). The NCS represents the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Rabbinical...

Answering Scandal With Personal Holiness Fourth Sunday of OT, Year A Zeph 2:3, 3:12-13; 1Cor1:26-31; Mt 5:1-12 Espirito Santo 1) The headlines this past week did not focus on the Patriots' march to the Super Bowl, or on who would QB, Drew or Tom, or even on the President's state of the union address and his comment that there are many Al-Qaeda operatives in the US like quot;ticking time-bombs.quot; None of these was the top story. The headlines were captured by the very sad news that perhaps up to seventy priests in the Archdiocese of Boston have abused young...