ESSAY: VATICAN MEETING ON ABUSE OPENS WITH INDICTMENT FROM VICTIMS
In an article first published on Religion News Service, US Catholic commentator and Jesuit priest THOMAS REESE reflects on the opening of a four day meeting of Catholic prelates to look at the issue of clergy sex abuse…
ESSAY: AS THE WORLD APPEARS TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN (AGAIN), ADVENT IS HERE
US Catholic commentator, THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reflects on the state of the world this Advent – and the hope that Jesus Christ brings despite what we see around us…
ESSAY: WHY THE US NEEDS A NATIONAL ALL FAITHS INQUIRY INTO CLERGY SEX ABUSE
In an article first published on Religion News Service, CHRISTA BROWN, board member of the Child-Friendly Faith Project, and DAVID CLOHESSY, former director of SNAP, argue for the US to hold a national inquiry into clergy sex abuse similar to Australia’s recent Royal Commission…
In the US, with Cardinal Wuerl stepping down, who’s next?
RNS The buzz about the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who heads the archdiocese of Washington, DC, and whose resignation the Pope accepted on Friday, had a lot to do with his position: technically, as some outlets pointed out, Wuerl is the most highly ranked member of the American Catholic hierarchy to lose his office […]
CATHOLIC CHURCH: IN SHOW OF CONTRITION, US DIOCESES BEGIN A LONG ROAD OF HEALING
YONAT SHIMRON and JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, report…
ESSAY: PRESSING POPE TO ACCEPT HIS RESIGNATION, US CARDINAL WUERL DOES THE RIGHT THING
US Jesuit priest THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News, says US Cardinal Donald Wuerl’s decision to ask the Pope to accept his resignation is the right move…
SEX ABUSE SCANDAL: US STATES LAUNCH INVESTIGATIONS IN WAKE OF PENNSYLVANIA REPORT INTO CATHOLIC CLERGY ABUSE OF CHILDREN
In this in-depth report, JACK JENKINS, of Religion News Service, looks at how US states have responded to a “bombshell” report from Pennsylvania which detailed the alleged sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by hundreds of Catholic priests by launching their own investigations…
At World Meeting of Families, Catholic leaders address sex abuse scandal, LGBT inclusion
Dublin, IrelandRNS A range of challenges to family life in the 21st century – from poor communication and alienation to sexual misconduct and the treatment of LGBT persons – dominated conversation at the Catholic Church’s World Meeting of Families this week. Participants in the four-day pastoral congress heard talks by church leaders in the United […]
ESSAY: FOUR THINGS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH MUST DO TO RESPOND TO SEX ABUSE
US Catholic Church commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks at how the Catholic Church in the US should respond to the sex abuse crisis it’s facing…
Critics say Pope’s comments are both “bold” and “too little, too late”
RNS In his response to a Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing allegations of sexual abuse of more than 1,000 children by Roman Catholic clergy, Pope Francis condemned the abuse as a crime and called the church to solidarity with its victims. “With shame and repentance, we acknowledge as an ecclesial community that we were not […]