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- <title>
- Mar. 22, 1993: The Archbishop's Sins
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 22, 1993 Can Animals Think
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 26
- SOCIETY
- The Archbishop's Sins
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A top Hispanic-American cleric confesses to sexual improprieties
- </p>
- <p> "I can and do ask publicly for your forgiveness, as I have of
- my God." So pleaded well-respected Archbishop Robert Fortune
- Sanchez, 58, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, the latest Catholic
- cleric enmeshed in a sex scandal. Sanchez's own statement
- offered no specifics. But local media reported that five unnamed
- women say they were sexually involved with him, in some cases
- as teenagers. One of the five, who claims she received a quiet
- cash settlement from the church in 1991, said all the women had
- been above the age of legal consent. Even if no crimes were
- committed, however, Sanchez apparently violated the priestly
- celibacy rule, not to mention basic Christian decency. In 1990
- Atlanta's Archbishop Eugene Marino became the first American of
- that rank ever to be forced out of office, after being caught
- in an affair with a woman.
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- </body>
- </article>
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