But these days even parish priests who are scientists are not exactly common.

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Lynn is the first high-ranking church figure charged with child endangerment for shuffling predator priests from parish to parish.

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Another major report is due next month on abuse by Catholic priests working in parish churches around Dublin.

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Mr McIvor said the priests of his parish, St Mary's in the Creggan area of the city, had met up to discuss the march.

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The late Pope John Paul II helmed the church when the crisis began in 2002 after Boston church leaders were found to have moved pedophile priests from one parish to another.

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They are most appalled by the way the hierarchy have protected their own: by the way, for example, Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston moved several offending priests around from parish to parish, where they simply repeated their offences.

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"Unassignable priests are those clerics whom the bishop cannot place in a parish because he has a serious moral impediment, " he said.

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