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[News Clip: Jury Nepotism]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 5pm.
[News Clip: DISD Nepotism]
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[News Clip: Salvation Army]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Salvation Army's store manager accused of giving away clothes and firing employees to benefit his friends and favorite employees. This story aired at 10:00 P.M.
[News Clip: Mesquite Citcon]
Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story by reporter Doug Adams about a Mesquite city county meeting that was controversial due to a debate concerning charges of nepotism and conflict of interest within the city council. This story aired at 10:00 P.M.
[News Clip: Price resigns]
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[News Script: Legislature relatives]
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[News Script: Grand jury subpoena]
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[News Script: Ratliff resignation aftermath]
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[News Script: Ratliff denies claims]
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[News Script: Dallas council]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Dallas council setting rules for summer hiring.
[News Script: James and Calvert deny Nepotism]
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Cardinal Giovanni Battista De Luca: Nepotism in the Seventeenth-century Catholic Church and De Luca's Efforts to Prohibit the Practice
This dissertation examines the role of Cardinal Giovanni Battista de Luca in the reform of nepotism in the seventeenth-century Catholic Church. Popes gave very large amounts of money to their relatives and the burden of nepotism on the Catholic Church was very onerous. The Catholic Church was crippled by nepotism and unable to carry out its traditional functions. Although Cardinal de Luca and Pope Innocent XI worked tirelessly to end nepotism, they were thwarted in their attempts by apprehension among the Cardinals concerning conciliarism and concerning the use of reform measures from the Council of Trent; by Gallicanism and the attempts of the French King to exercise power over the French Church; and by the entrenchment of nepotism and its long acceptance within the Church. Cardinal de Luca and Innocent XI were not able to push through reforms during their lifetimes but Pope Innocent XII was able to complete this reform and pass a reform Bull. This dissertation has two complementary themes. First, a confluence of circumstances allowed for the unfettered growth of nepotism in the seventeenth-century Church to the point of threatening the well-being of the Catholic Church. Reform was not undertaken until the threat to Church finances was severe. Secondly, two upstanding and honest reformers arose in the Catholic Church to correct the problem, de Luca and Innocent XI. The achievements of Cardinal de Luca, also an important reformer of the Canon Law, are almost unknown to an English-speaking audience.
[News Script: Houston newspaper probe]
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[News Clip: DART Charges]
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[News Clip: DART]
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