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DALLAS (TX)
The Dallas Morning News

12:04 AM CDT on Sunday, June 27, 2004

We asked commentators from across the spectrum of American Catholicism for their reaction to The Dallas Morning News' recent series detailing how prominent international churchmen are helping runaway priests escape justice in child molestation cases.

In addition to the voices published below, The News invited church officials at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington and the Conference of Major Superiors of Men in Maryland to contribute commentary. Officials with both organizations declined.

William Donohue, Head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights

The Dallas Morning News deserves credit for exposing the transfer of molesting priests overseas. Molesters, be they priests or plumbers, deserve to be punished, and not put on a plane.

But the series is not something most Catholics are prepared to hyperventilate about, and for good reason: The stories are mostly anecdotal and the timeline is mostly pre-scandal.
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