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Papal envoy to run scandal-plagued priestly order

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict will appoint a special envoy to run and reform an influential Roman Catholic priestly order whose late founder was discovered to have been a sexual molester and to have fathered at least one child.

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