Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 11:39:46 EDT

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: is...is (variation on a theme)



A slightly different version, contributed by the mother of three sex-abuse

victims commenting on a Texas monsignor's reaction to a verdict awarding

$120,000,000 in finding the Catholic diocese in Dallas responsible for failing

to stop a priest from abusing a large number of altar boys. Msgr. Robert

Rehkemper complained that it was really the boys' parents who were responsible

because they had failed to notice the abuse, and therefore must not have been

particularly concerned about their children...

"You can't even say he's in denial", said Gail Pawlik, the mother of

three victims. "It's a profound arrogance, is what we're dealing with."

--N.Y. Times, 8/9/97, p. 5