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DUBLIN -- A 1997 letter from the Vatican warned Ireland's Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police - a disclosure that victims' groups described as "the smoking gun" needed to show that the church enforced a worldwide culture of covering up crimes by pedophile priests. The newly revealed letter, obtained by Irish broadcasters RTE and provided to The Associated Press, documents the Vatican's rejection of a 1996 Irish church initiative to begin helping police identify pedophile priests following Ireland's first wave of publicly disclosed lawsuits...

Rush is quoting posters from DU again. They're server crashed! He was quoting about how posters thought Bush was more of a danger than Saddam!

Rush is reading from DU posts to rip Dean supporters and Democrats as the anti-USA kooks they are. Gotta love it.

For now, Jesse Hardy can keep his land. Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Cabinet on Thursday gave Hardy and fellow Southern Golden Gate Estates resident George Miller more time to negotiate with state officials, who want to acquire their lands. Hardy and Miller have refused to give up their homes to make way for an environmental restoration project that has both state and federal blessing. Instead of forcing the pair off their land through legal action, Cabinet members told Department of Environmental Protection Secretary David Struhs to go back to the homeowners with a better offer. Such a deal...