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Some Catholics Say Benedict Needs to Do Penance Now

March 19, 2010 By Lisa Miller

I’m not sure I can take it anymore, my Catholic friend K. wrote to me in an e-mail. Maybe I should become an Episcopalian. Fury does not begin to describe her mood. More than 10,000 children in Europe smacked, tortured, and raped by priests who were supposed to protect them. Bishops and spokesmen denying or […]

Filed Under: BeliefWatch: Lisa Miller, Newsweek Tagged With: Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Lisa Miller

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Lisa Miller is a staff writer at New York magazine. She is the former religion columnist for the Washington Post, former senior editor of Newsweek magazine, and author of "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife."

In 2014, Lisa Miller was nominated for the National Magazine Award and featured in Best Magazine Writing of 2014.

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