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4 picks · 1988–1993

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Unholy Acts
a reporter at large ·

Paul Wilkes’s 1993 story about Catholic parents confronting a sex-abuse scandal in their small Massachusetts parish.

II-THE EDUCATION OF AN ARCHBISHOP
profiles ·

PROFILE of Rembert George Weakland, Archbishop of Milwaukee. Writer went with him last Nov. to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops which holds it …

I-THE EDUCATION OF AN ARCHBISHOP
profiles ·

PROFILE of Rembert George Weakland, 64, Archbishop of Milwaukee. Writer spoke with him last Sept. just after he came back from a monthlong vacation. He …

PARISH PRIEST
profiles ·

PROFILE of Father Joseph Greer, 56, a Roman Catholic priest whose parish covers almost 4 square miles of the town of Natick, which, with 8500 parishoners, …