Discussions about the separation of church and state present a series of complicated issues. In today's Academic Minute, Seton Hall University's Jo-Renee Formicola analyzes this relationship in the wake of the Catholic sex-abuse scandals. Formicola is a professor of political science at Seton Hall and author of Clerical Sexual Abuse: How the Crisis Changed U. S. Catholic Church- State Relations, A transcript of this podcast can be found here.