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By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe Vatican is scrambling to tamp down yet another crisis in the ongoing clergy sexual abuse scandal, this time over the revelation of a 1997 letter from a senior Vatican official telling the bishops of Ireland not to implement their new policy of reporting abusive priests to law enforcement authorities. Advocates for victims and other critics say the letter from the Vatican's envoy to Ireland at the time is a "smoking gun" proving their claims that the Vatican helped direct an effort to conceal abuses for years. "The letter is of huge international significance, because it shows that the ...
How the Real Pat Tillman Story Was Finally Exposed
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 20) -- The documentary film "The Tillman Story," about the life -- and mostly the death, subsequent cover-up of the death and struggle to reveal the truth about the death -- of pro-football star turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman hits theaters across America on Friday. The controversial celluloid investigation of his story is being widely praised by critics for its unflinching honesty, raw emotion and sociopolitical importance. But as revealing as the film may be at exposing the efforts within the ranks of the Army and the U.S. government to hide the true nature of Tillman's death from the ...
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