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February 2019

February 08, 2019

Report: McCarrick Decision Coming Next Week

From Reuters: Vatican officials will meet next week to decide the fate of disgraced former...

February 07, 2019

Bishop’s Name Removed from Buildings in West Virginia

Details: Central Catholic High School’s gymnasium in East Wheeling no longer bears the name of...

February 05, 2019

In a First, Pope Francis Addresses Scandal of Priests Abusing Nuns: ‘We’re Working On It’

From The New York Times: Pope Francis said on Tuesday that the Roman Catholic Church...

January 2019

January 19, 2019

Shock: Elderly nun in Detroit resigns, admitting ‘inappropriate conduct’

Details: Theresa Camden remembers lying on the floor next to the nun supervising her training...

January 07, 2019

Opus Dei paid nearly a million dollars in sexual misconduct suit against Father McCloskey

From The Washington Post: The Catholic community Opus Dei in 2005 paid $977,000 to settle...

January 03, 2019

‘Dear Brothers…’: Read the full text of Pope Francis’s letter to the U.S. bishops on their ‘crisis of credibility’

From CNS: The clerical abuse crisis and the "crisis of credibility" it created for the...

December 2018

December 19, 2018

Los Angeles auxiliary bishop resigns following accusation of abuse

From CNS: Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of 69-year-old Auxiliary Bishop Alexander Salazar of...

December 14, 2018

Nashville deacon removed from ministry for ‘carrying on public disagreement’ over sex abuse crisis

From NCR: A Nashville deacon who has raised questions about the completeness of the diocese's...

November 2018

November 16, 2018

2018: The year of losing our religion

If bishops want a sense of where things stand these days, consider this: Last weekend,...

November 13, 2018

Survivors speak out in Baltimore: ‘We’re angry. And we’re not going away’

CNS has posted this video from a protest yesterday near the USCCB gathering in Baltimore:...

November 13, 2018

Report: J.R.R. Tolkein’s priest son faced allegations of child sex abuse

Details: A Catholic priest accused of child abuse was not reported to police despite apparently...

November 12, 2018

Shock: Vatican cancels USCCB vote on sex abuse reform measures

From CNA: Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference has told the American...

November 10, 2018

Buffalo parishioners use the collection basket to send a message

Yesterday, I reported on concerns that the ongoing sex abuse crisis will affect Catholic giving....

November 03, 2018

‘Failure at the top’: landmark investigation shows how bishops failed to police themselves

A sobering and, frankly, shocking assessment from a combined analysis of The Boston Globe and...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

New York bishop accused of sex abuse

Cardinal Timothy Dolan made the announcement this morning: Dear Member of the Family of the...

October 29, 2018

ICYMI: The stunning interview with the Buffalo sex abuse whistleblower on ’60 Minutes’

The clip above, an outtake available only online, features Siobhan O'Connor, longtime assistant to...

October 27, 2018

‘An uncontrolled wildfire’: Feds tell Catholic bishops not to destroy sex abuse documents

From The New York Times: The Department of Justice has sent a sweeping request to...

October 26, 2018

Sex abuse crisis: Buffalo whistleblower, deacon to appear on ’60 Minutes’

In the video here, you can see part of Correspondent Bill Whitaker's interview with Deacon...

October 24, 2018

UPDATE: Eparchy says August attack on Byzantine priest never happened; priest placed on leave

You may remember this story from last summer, which got lots of media attention: Fr....

October 23, 2018

BREAKING: D.C. Attorney General launches investigation into sex abuse by Catholic clergy

From The Washington Post: D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine said Tuesday that his office...

October 22, 2018

To be young and Catholic today: ‘I still feel a level of disgust and betrayal’

From The Washington Post, a snapshot of young Catholics and their response to the sex...

October 18, 2018

U.S. Justice Department opens clergy abuse probe in Pennsylvania—UPDATED

Details: The U.S. Justice Department has opened an investigation of child sexual abuse inside the...

October 18, 2018

A priest writes: To solve this crisis, start by fixing the seminaries

The Rev. Thomas Berg, vice rector and director of admissions at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers,...

October 18, 2018

Poll: Growing number of U.S. Catholics question staying in the Church

From CBS News: Most Catholic Americans think the Pope and the Vatican are doing a...

October 17, 2018

Pope tells seminarians: report abuse immediately

Details: Pope Francis told a group of Italian seminarians to report immediately to their bishop...

October 16, 2018

‘Our American priests and deacons should be picking their own bishops’

This is an idea getting more and more traction—and now it's popped up on The...

October 15, 2018

Cupich: Bishops must cede some rights for the sake of accountability

From La Stampa: Individual Catholic bishops across the United States must renounce some of the...

October 12, 2018

Wuerl out: reaction and analysis

From The Washington Post: Pope Francis on Friday accepted the resignation of Washington’s archbishop, Cardinal...

October 08, 2018

Founder of Courage urged bishops to ‘rehabilitate’ abusive priests and return them to ministry

Some fascinating and important history here, from Crux: Amid this summer’s wave of sexual abuse...

October 02, 2018

New poll shows confidence in Pope Francis plummeting in U.S.

From Pew: As allegations and investigations of sex abuse in the Catholic Church become more widespread, a new Pew...