ABC Evening News for Saturday, May 25, 2002
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(Studio: Elizabeth Vargas) Boston's Cardinal Bernard Law shown inducting five men into the Catholic priesthood.
(Studio: Elizabeth Vargas) The problem with sexual abuse by Catholic priests in New Mexico in the early 1990s reviewed; details given of the removal of priests one after the other in 1993 and of the reform campaign. [KOAT-TV Larry BARKER - cites the 1990s stories about pedophile priests.] ["Albuquerque Journal" Bruce DANIELS - talks about the treatment program; asks why were people not listening to what happened in New Mexico ten years ago.] [Santa Fe Archbishop Michael SHEEHAN - talks about settling claims that led the archdiocese to the edge of bankruptcy; states zero tolerance is the only way to go .] [Vocation director Rev. John CARNEY - recalls choosing and training good men for the priesthood.] [Abuse victim Susan SANDOVAL, mother of abused boys Marlene DEBREY-NOWAK - recall the abuse by the parish priests.]
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