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September 2018

September 11, 2018

Wuerl tells priests he will meet with Pope Francis to discuss his resignation

From CNA: The Archbishop of Washington told priests Tuesday that he intends to meet with...

September 11, 2018

Pope Francis: ‘The Great Accuser has been unchained and is attacking bishops’

From today: In his homily at Mass on Tuesday morning, Pope Francis said it seems...

September 10, 2018

Cupich to seminarians: ‘We have a bigger agenda than to be distracted by’ sex abuse crisis

The Chicago Sun-Times reports: The young man studying at Mundelein Seminary to become a Catholic...

September 04, 2018

‘Friend of the diaconate’ named auxiliary bishop

This is pretty great news, in an email from the International Diaconate Center: During the...

September 04, 2018

Confirmed: Wuerl met with Pope Francis Thursday — UPDATED

From CNN: Pope Francis met with embattled Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington last Thursday in...

September 02, 2018

Bishop calls on his priests to make public restatement of promises

A powerful gesture, from Albany's Bishop Edward Scharfenberger: In a letter issued on Aug. 31,...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

Cardinal Wuerl to his priests: ‘I now ask myself what is the way I can best serve this Church that I, too, much love’

The embattled cardinal archbishop of Washington sent the following letter to his priests, which was...

August 30, 2018

‘Love requires sacrifice. There are those among you who know the truth. Tell it now.’

Elizabeth Bruenig of The Washington Post describes her efforts to interview former Cardinal McCarrick—and says...

August 27, 2018

Archdiocese of Washington statement on Viganò calls for review of his tenure as nuncio

From The Archdiocese of Washington website: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, a former Apostolic Nuncio to...

August 27, 2018

Bishop: ‘I commit myself to a full day and night of public penance…’

This is something exceptional, from my longtime Facebook friend Bishop Robert Reed in Boston, a...

August 26, 2018

U.S. bishop: ‘They are still allegations but as your shepherd I find them to be credible’

Hours after the story broke, we now have the first significant episcopal response to the...

August 25, 2018

Does your parish pray the ‘St. Michael Prayer’?

In my travels around the country, I've encountered a few places where the bishop has...

August 23, 2018

Two Pennsylvania colleges will remove bishops’ names from buildings

First, there was this announcement from the University of Scranton: Dear Members of the University...

August 16, 2018

USCCB: ‘This is a moral catastrophe’

The latest, from the USCCB: Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, President of the United...

August 14, 2018

Bishops respond to grand jury report: ‘We we are shamed by and sorry for the sins and omissions…’

The big story today, via The New York Times: Bishops and other leaders of the...

August 09, 2018

The current crisis: what can we do?

Elizabeth Scalia has some clear-eyed, concrete ideas: We feel lost, but we mustn’t. God is...

August 09, 2018

‘Something very important is missing from every statement issued by the U.S. bishops…’

A very good observation this morning from Dawn Eden Goldstein: Something very important is missing...

August 07, 2018

New bishop on the McCarrick scandal: ‘It is almost unbearable. This cannot continue.’

I had the privilege of breaking bread with Jefferson City's Bishop Shawn McKnight during our...

August 06, 2018

‘Dear Bishops, please pay attention…’ — UPDATED

Elizabeth Scalia notes some news out of Washington this morning — and says what a...

July 2018

July 31, 2018

An archbishop writes to his flock: ‘The bitter fruits of the sexual revolution continue to wreak havoc’

From Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City: In response to recent allegations regarding former Cardinal...

July 30, 2018

Australia’s Archbishop Wilson resigns over sex abuse case

From Vatican News: Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Australian Archbishop Philip Edward Wilson of...

July 29, 2018

Albany’s bishop on the McCarrick scandal: ‘At its heart, this is a profoundly spiritual crisis’

The bishop of Albany, Edward B. Scharfenberger, released the following letter to his clergy today, taking...

July 25, 2018

Bishop quits Twitter, calling it ‘an occasion for sin’

Details: The leader of Rhode Island's Roman Catholics deleted his Twitter account on Monday. Diocese...

July 03, 2018

Bishops at the border describe ‘somber’ experience visiting detained migrant children

From CNS: In less than 48 hours, a group of Catholic bishops saw the faces...

June 2018

June 25, 2018

A priest on McCarrick: ‘I am angry’

The Rev. Martin Fox from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati responds to last week's news on...

June 22, 2018

Pope: each bishop must decide about communion in mixed marriages

This broke yesterday, on his return flight from Geneva. From CNS: The question of allowing...

June 20, 2018

‘The notion that we can legitimately traumatize children…is beyond the pale’

Last week, Bishop Edward Weisenburger of Tucson made headlines at the USCCB meeting for...

June 19, 2018

Bishop on border separation: ‘We cannot choose which parts of the truth we believe in’

From Bridgeport Bishop Frank Caggiano: As our nation continues to grapple with the practice of...

June 16, 2018

New Mexico bishops: ‘We are greatly appalled’ by border policies

A statement released Friday from the bishops of New Mexico: As bishops of a border...

June 15, 2018

‘Canonical penalties’ for those who separate children from parents at the border?

The bishop of Tucson made the proposal earlier this week, and launched a firestorm of...