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Show World&Nation Page 12 Monday, Sept. 14, 2009 Counterfeit Moon rocks Colors of change hitting Utah’s mountainsides raise questions AMSTERDAM (AP) – Attention, countries of the world: Do you know where your moon rocks are? The discovery of a fake moon rock in the Netherlands’ national museum should be a wake-up call for more than 130 countries that received gifts of lunar rubble from both the Apollo 11 flight in 1969 and Apollo 17 three years later. Nearly 270 rocks scooped up by U.S. astronauts were given to foreign countries by the Nixon administration. But according to experts and research by The Associated Press, the whereabouts of some of the small rocks are unknown. “There is no doubt in my mind that many moon rocks are lost or stolen and now sitting in private collections,” said Joseph Gutheinz, a University of Arizona instructor and former U.S. government investigator who has made a project of tracking down the lunar treasures. The Rijksmuseum, more noted as a repository for 17th century Dutch paintings, announced last month it had had its plum-sized “moon” rock tested, only to discover it was a piece of petrified wood, possibly from Arizona. The museum said it inherited the rock from the estate of a former prime minister. The real Dutch moon rocks are in a natural history museum. But the misidentification raised questions about how well countries have safeguarded their presents from Washington. Genuine moon rocks, while worthless in mineral terms, can fetch six-figure sums from black-market collectors. Of 135 rocks from the Apollo 17 mission given away to nations or their leaders, only about 25 have been located by CollectSpace.com, a Web site for space history buffs that has long attempted to compile a list. ABUSE: Priest & sin -continued from page 2 media reports, linked to by Web sites of victims groups and blogs. Almost all the cases have come out in the seven years since the scandal about Roman Catholic priest abuse broke in the United States. The numbers in Italy are still a mere trickle compared to the hundreds of cases in the court systems of the United States and Ireland. And according to the AP tally, the Italian church has so far had to pay only a few hundred thousand euros (dollars) in civil damages to the victims, compared to $2.6 billion in abuse-related costs for the American diocese or $1.5 billion due to victims in Ireland. However, the numbers still stand out in a country where reports of clerical sex abuse were virtually unknown a decade ago. They point to an increasing willingness among the Italian public and – slowly – within the Vatican itself to look squarely at a tragedy where the reported cases may only just be the tip of the iceberg. The Italian church will not release the numbers of cases reported or of court settlements. The implications of priest abuse loom large in Italy: with its 50,850 priests in a nation of 60 million, Italy counts more priests than all of South America or Africa. In the United States – where the Vatican counts 44,700 priests in a nation of 300 million – more than 4,000 Catholic clergy have been accused of molesting minors since 1950. The Italian cases follow much the same pattern as the U.S. and Irish scandals: Italian prelates often preyed on poor, physically or mentally disabled, or drug-addicted youths entrusted to their care. The deaf students’ speech impairments, for example, made the priests’ admonition “never to tell” all the more easy to enforce. In this predominantly Roman Catholic country, the church enjoys such an exalted status that the pope’s pronouncements frequently top the evening news, without any critical commentary. Even those with anti-clerical views State University Go Utah Confidently, Go KD! 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FALL BEGINS TO ARRIVE IN THIS PHOTO PROVIDED by the Utah Office of Tourism that shows Mount Timpanogos, part of the Wasatch Range in Utah. Fall is one of the most beautiful times in Cache Valley, go enjoy a hike in Logan Canyon or do your homework on the Quad. AP photo acknowledge the important role the church plays in education, social services and caring for the poor. As a result, few dare to criticize it, including the mainstream independent and state-run media. In addition, there’s a certain prudishness in small-town Italy, where one just doesn’t speak about sex, much less sex between a priest and a child. “It’s a taboo on top of a taboo,” said Jacqueline Monica Magi, who prosecuted several pedophilia cases in Italy before becoming a judge. “This is the provincialism of Italy.” Breaking the conspiracy of silence, 67 former students from Verona’s Antonio Provolo institute for the deaf signed a statement alleging that sexual abuse, pedophilia and corporal punishment occurred at the school from the 1950s to the 1980s at the hands of priests and brothers of the Congregation for the Company of Mary. While not all acknowledged being victims themselves, 14 of the 67 wrote sworn statements and videotaped testimony, detailing the abuse they say they suffered, some for years, at the school’s two campuses in Verona, the city of Romeo and Juliet. They named 24 priests, lay religious men and religious brothers. Vantini said he, too, was silent for years. “How could I tell my papa that a priest had sex with me?” Vantini, 59, told the AP one afternoon, recounting through a sign-language interpreter the abuse he said he endured. “You couldn’t tell your parents because the priests would beat you.” Vantini named two priests and two lay brothers – three of whom are still alive – but asked that their names not be printed for fear of legal action. He spoke with the nervousness and agitation he says has accompanied him all of his life from being raped as a child by a priest. “I suffered from depression until I was 30,” said Vantini, who attended the school from age 6 to 19. “My wife said it was good that I spoke out because it lifted this weight from my chest.” Vantini’s one-time schoolmate, Gianni Bisoli, 60, named the same men in his written declaration and in an interview, as well as 12 other priests and brothers from the Congregation, accusing them of sodomizing him, forcing him to have oral sex and to Castelvecchio, an imposing masturbate them. 14th-century citadel, then In his declaration, Bisoli along the main Corso Cavour also accused Verona’s late thoroughfare or the more outbishop, Monsignor Giuseppe of-the-way pedestrian shopping Carraro – who is being constreet Via Mazzini. sidered for beatification – of “They brought me inside molesting him on five sepathe curia (the diocese headrate occasions while he was a quarters),” Bisoli recalled in an student at Provolo, which he interview. “There was a servant attended from age 9 to 15. who opened the door, then A diocesan probe cleared someone brought me inside. It Carraro of sex abuse. But the was dark.” investigation interviewed none Bishop Carraro appeared, of the alleged victims, limiting he recalled. “The bishop testimony to surviving memstarted to touch me, grope me,” bers of the Congregation, other he said, running his hands up school personnel and their and down his body, pulling at affiliates, and documentation his shirt and shorts to demonfrom the Congregation and strate. “I pulled away. But he Verona diocese. continued to touch me for 15, The late bishop’s beatifica20 minutes. I didn’t know what tion process was suspended to do.” pending the investigation, On a subsequent occasion, but is now going ahead to the Bisoli says, the bishop tried to Vatican’s saint-making office. sodomize him with a banana. Five decades later, Bisoli Another time, they were on the still recalls the route he said he sofa and he sodomized him took from the institute, located with his finger, offering him on a quiet street named for the candy to appease him, Bisoli congregation’s founder, Don said. Antonio Provolo, along the serOnce, Bisoli said, the bishop pentine Adige river to the bish- offered him some gold crosses op’s residence tucked behind that had caught Bisoli’s eye. Verona’s Piazza del Duomo. “I said ‘at least give me Bisoli, who became deaf at 10,000-20,000 lire so I can buy age eight, said he was accoma Coca-Cola or an ice cream,’” panied by one of his abusers Bisoli recalled. 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