Heresy existed in Europe before the 11th century but only in small numbers and of local character: a rogue priest, or a village returning to pagan traditions; but beginning in the 11th century mass-movement heresies appeared.

In only his first days on the job, Archbishop Sean O'Malley is providing enlightened leadership for Boston Catholics bedeviled by the scandalous cover-up of rogue priests who sexually abused innocent children.

Simon knew that the criminality involved in the scandal was not simply a matter of a rogue priest, but that high church officials were willfully ignoring the crimes of their priests.

The nation's Roman Catholic bishops have taken a praiseworthy but sadly belated first step toward putting in place safeguards against the scourge of rogue priests, whose sexual abuse of children was hushed up for decades.

A few ranking leaders were singled out for criticism by the review board, including Cardinals Edward Egan of New York and Roger Mahony of Los Angeles, who have defended their past management of rogue priests.

In the end, Erin becomes the captive of a rogue priest seeking to sabotage the time jumper in his bid for power and revenge.

After years of stonewalling, Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles has run out of excuses for blocking the prosecution of rogue priests accused in the church's pedophilia scandal.

The contrast could not be greater between Bishop O'Malley and his discredited predecessor, Cardinal Bernard Law, who tolerated the sexual abuse of dozens of children by rogue priests.

It was akin to the horror story of poisoned baptismal salt used by a rogue priest to murder an infant Haldane prince, around the time of Restoration.

The latest evidence of "willfully blind" church leaders who tolerated decades of child abuse by rogue priests comes from New Hampshire, where the Catholic diocese of Manchester found itself on the verge of a criminal indictment.