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Should bishops be giving financial gifts to one another?
June 07, 2019
The US bishops arrive in Baltimore next week for their second plenary meeting in the year of serious crisis that began last June. They will meet, again, under the specter of another demoralizing scandal. This one, again, involves a well-connected bishop, a ledger of extravagant gifts, and allegations of abuse from priests and seminarians subject
DiNardo denies mishandling priest abuse case and confession allegations
June 06, 2019
The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston disputed reports that Cardinal Daniel DiNardo mishandled a sexual abuse claim against a priest, and denied that the archdiocese had ever received reports that the accused priest violated canon law regarding the sacrament of penance. “The Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston categorically rejects the unprofessional, biased and one-sided reporting contained in today’s Associated
California confession bill amended, but still would require priests to violate seal
May 21, 2019
California’s state senate will vote on a bill that would require priests to violate the seal of confession in certain limited circumstances. An amended text of the bill passed the Senate appropriations’ committee on May 16. The bill, as amended, would require priests to report to law enforcement knowledge or suspicion of child abuse gained
Rosica apologizes for plagiarism
February 23, 2019
A long-time Vatican spokesman has admitted to passing off the writing of others as his own, and apologized for plagiarizing. “What I’ve done is wrong, and I am sorry about that. I don’t know how else to say it,” Fr. Thomas Rosica, CSB, told the National Post on February 22. Rosica, a long-serving English language
Analysis: In spite of itself, Vatican abuse summit may still do some good
February 23, 2019
The Vatican’s abuse summit this week will not solve the problems plaguing the Catholic Church in the U.S. In fact, it doesn’t aim to. The summit was called by Pope Francis in September, shortly after he was accused of ignoring reports about the predatory behavior of disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick. But from the beginning,
McCarrick may be ‘laicized’ this week. What does that mean?
February 13, 2019
Archbishop Theodore McCarrick will reportedly be laicized this week, if he is found guilty of having sexually abused minors. But what does it mean to be “laicized,” “defrocked,” or “dismissed from the clerical state?” Ordination, the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, “confers a gift of the Holy Spirit that permits the exercise of a
Analysis: Archbishop McCarrick, Bishop Zanchetta, Pope Francis, and the Vatican abuse summit
February 10, 2019
A long-awaited summit on sexual abuse will take place at the Vatican two weeks from now. The meeting was announced in September, a few months after allegations of sexual abuse and coercion on the part of Archbishop Theodore McCarrick became public, and just weeks after Pope Francis himself was accused by former apostolic nuncio Archbishop
Bishop Daly: pro-abortion politicians should not receive Communion
February 04, 2019
The Bishop of Spokane said Friday that that politicians who publicly support abortion should not receive the Eucharist in his diocese. “Politicians who reside in the Catholic Diocese of Spokane, and who obstinately persevere in their public support for abortion, should not receive Communion without first being reconciled to Christ and the Church,” Bishop Thomas
Wuerl denies denying knowledge of McCarrick abuse
January 15, 2019
Cardinal Donald Wuerl told Washington, DC priests Saturday that he appropriately handled a 2004 allegation of misconduct against Archbishop Theodore McCarrick. The cardinal also said that his recent denials of knowledge concerning McCarrick’s alleged misdeeds pertained only to the sexual abuse of minors. In a January 12 letter to priests, Wuerl said that in 2004
Analysis: Their retreat accomplished, the U.S. bishops remain under siege
January 08, 2019
The Archdiocese of Chicago’s Mundelein Seminary is beautiful. Set on 600 leafy acres, its buildings merge the aesthetics of the American Colonial Revival with the motifs of great Roman edifices. Its library is expansive. Its chapel is a gem. Mundelein is the kind of place that is hard to leave. When their seven-day retreat at
McCarrick abused youth during confession, lawyer charges
December 29, 2018
A man who says he was serially sexually abused by Archbishop Theodore McCarrick testified Thursday as part of a Vatican investigation regarding the archbishop’s history of sexual abuse and misconduct. James Grein testified on December 27 in a canonical deposition conducted by officials of the Archdiocese of New York, the Washington Post has reported. Grein’s
LA archdiocese to press charges against sisters accused of embezzlement
December 12, 2018
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles will file a criminal complaint against religious sisters who have been accused of embezzling from a Catholic school at which they had worked for more than a decade. Sr. Mary Margaret Kreuper, CSJ and Sr. Lana Chang, CSJ, who both retired this year from St. James Catholic School in Torrance,
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