Church historian Christopher Bellitto questioned if Benedict, who turns 92 next week, was being manipulated by others. He said the essay omitted the critical conclusions that arose from the Pope’s February sex abuse summit in Rome, including that “abusers were priests along the ideological spectrum, that the abuse predated the 1960s, that it is a global and not simply Western problem, that homosexuality is not the issue in paedophilia”.
Daily Archives: April 11, 2019
Atlantic mackerel stocks down 86% over past 20 years, says new DFO report
The latest stock assessment for Atlantic mackerel contains grim news for one of the region’s most iconic fish.
Katie Bouman: the 29-year-old whose work led to first black hole photo
Bouman is a post-doctoral fellow at MIT whose algorithm led to an image of a supermassive black hole
This week, the world laid eyes on an image that previously it was thought was unseeable.
Related: Black hole picture captured for first time in space breakthrough
DRC Ebola surge marks 2nd straight record-setting day
Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News
Apr 11, 2019
A 20-case day follows an 18-case day, and totals have now topped 1,200.
Resistant microbes commonly found on hospital privacy curtains
Chris Dall | News Reporter | CIDRAP News
Apr 11, 2019
MDRO contamination rates ranged from 11.9% to 28.5% across 6 facilities.
Storm System Stirs Up Dust
Powerful winds lofted massive amounts of dust over parts of Texas and New Mexico.
Georgia lawmakers consider bill that takes aim at the state’s journalists
Brown shirts in Georgia
Congressman Andrew Welch introduced legislation that would create a state board to oversee the work of media outlets
In a move slammed by proponents of press freedom, Georgia politicians are considering a law that would create a journalism board to oversee the work of journalists in the state.
The move, introduced by the Republican state legislator Andrew Welch just before he resigned his seat, has generated widespread outrage, though it fits into a pattern of attacks on the media by Republican figures, including Donald Trump.
