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Posted: December 23, 2012 at 3:50 a.m.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “It is with deep humility and gratitude that I received the news that the Holy Father is entrusting me with this service to the Church.” The Rev. Robert W. Oliver, a canon law specialist at the Archdiocese of Boston, who was named the Vatican’s new sex-crimes prosecutor Article, 9A

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