The Costs of Penance

LAW AND THE ORDER: The Cardinal is seeking funds

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In the end, says Florida attorney Sheldon Stevens, who has handled 75 abuse cases, "there is no source I am aware of that doesn't come, bottom line, from parishioners." And that's the biggest peril facing the church: shaken Catholics may have to decide whether they want to spend much more of their money to bring the church out of moral bankruptcy.

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