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...in none of the lamentations over Similarly, from the pews I've occupied, sexual abuse have we seen a single state- I find it doesn't make much difference if ment about measures taken by the church a male or a female calls me to do what Jesus to heighten the awareness of priests and told me to do...
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...The institution of slavSainted Women of the Dark Ages, edit- Robert Ellsberg's anthology of the ery had to be preserved...
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...the behavior of institutionalists: their and at additional offices...
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