Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 09, 2002

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Rev. Sloan: Hope I can get through this...How can I not? Let's be very, very clear on this point: pedophiliac abuse is both criminal and morally repugnant...and my attempts to cover it up made me an accessory to the crime, particularly egregious for a man of the cloth...especially when it involved paying off victims with money donated in good faith by unwitting parishioners. For all these sins and crimes, I have decided to resign - out of shame, out of penance, but most of all, out of honor! So that's what I would do. Wouldn't you? Zonker: Is the pope catholic?