Cardinal O’Malley: clergy have responsibility to report abuse

Cardinal O’Malley: clergy have responsibility to report abuse

VATICAN CITY (RNS) – Catholic clergy have a "moral and ethical responsibility" to report sexual abuse, the cardinal tasked with reforming the Vatican's approach to sexual crimes said after criticism of the Holy See.

Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley sought to reaffirm the church's position on reporting abuse in his role as head of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, which Pope Francis set up in 2014.

Harvard’s frenetic pace leads students to hook up, not date
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Harvard’s frenetic pace leads students to hook up, not date

Lizzie Short

BOSTON – The "hookup culture" of casual intimacy on college campuses has been written about ad nauseam – is it good? Bad? Does it hurt women, or empower them? What about men? Is it simply a numbers game, prompted by a rise in the "supply" of women relative to men on college campuses?

But the term "hookup culture" leaves some college students (who are supposedly part of it) baffled.

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