Child molestation riles up professor

Religion professor Elaine Pagels' groundbreaking work on the Gnostic gospels helped win her a MacArthur "Genius Grant" in 1981. Since then, her continued investigations of early Christianity have earned her considerable renown and consistently full lecture halls. But it turns out she's also got a thing or two to say about current developments in the world's largest faith. Here she is in a recent Newsweek article on the Catholic Church:

"I see [the hierarchy] as outrageously indifferent to the welfare of children," says a fuming Elaine Pagels, professor of religion at Princeton. "For you and me this is hard to understand. It seems to us out of step with the world. But they don't want to be in step with the world."

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