41.   The curb-side shooting was the second instance of violence since the sexual abuse scandal among priests began to mushroom this winter.

42.   The pope has summoned all American cardinals here for meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss possible solutions to the sex abuse scandals.

43.   The pope lamented last week that the child abuse scandal is eroding trust in the church.

44.   The sexual abuse scandal engulfing the Roman Catholic Church, far from being nearly over, has only begun.

45.   The sexual abuse scandal roiling the Roman Catholic Church has drained the trust that many Catholics had vested in their priests and in the church hierarchy.

46.   The sex abuse scandal is only the latest and most explosive problem in the church, members said, citing poor treatment of women and other issues.

47.   The sexual abuse scandals that surfaced in January have demoralized parishioners and priests alike and crippled the effectiveness of the church as a whole.

48.   The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is expected to consider a national policy to address the sex abuse scandal at a meeting in Dallas in June.

49.   The unfolding clergy sexual abuse scandal has become the biggest crisis to hit the Catholic Church in the United States in recent memory.

50.   There has been no sexual abuse scandal here as in the United States, and pedophilia is not seen as a particular problem in the South African clergy.