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Bishop Nicholas A. DiMarzio of Brooklyn repeated a warning this week that he has leveled at lawmakers for months: If the statute of limitations on child sex-abuse lawsuits is temporarily lifted, as pending state legislation proposes, a cascade of very bad things will happen. His Roman Catholic diocese and others will go bankrupt. Bishops like him will be forced to close churches and schools. And wrathful constituents will punish the politicians who, in his view, will have made this all happen. The rest of the story is given below:
nytimes.com/2009/06/05/nyregion/05abuse.html?_r=1&em
nytimes.com/2009/06/05/nyregion/05abuse.html?_r=1&em