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What if Roy copped a plea?

Thomas C. Fox  |  Apr. 13, 2011 NCR Today

One wag on the internet this morning tells the story of the canon lawyer who suggests (facetiously) Roy Bourgeois consider copping a plea with Vatican officials to see if they might consider dropping the charge against him of advocating women's ordination, punishable by excommunication, to a "lesser” offense, of, say, pedophilia, thereby allowing him to keep his collar.


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